In the rapidly changing industrial society of today, where values are constantly changing, youths are especially ready and willing to accept all kinds of fresh things and events. With the addition of the all-pervasive modern mass media, it is only natural that young people should have concepts and ways of doing things which are different from those of their elders in the preceding generation.
尤其在今天這樣一個快速變遷的工業社會裡，價值觀不斷改變，青少年接受新事物的意願大、速度快，加上現代大眾傳播無遠弗屆，年輕人自然會有與年齡較大，或與上一代歧異的觀念、做法。