ABSTRACT
Scholarship on youth culture was set in motion by G. Stanley Hall's "discovery" of adolescence in 1904, which brought together a range of analyses about young people and their relationships to education, family life, peers relations, sexuality, biology, and employment. Hall's dominant definition of adolescence is still relevant— it is a biological state when young people's bodies undergo the often perilous transition to adulthood and is a vulnerable time, a period of "storm and stress," when puberty's rioting hormones render young people both physically and emotionally unstable.
