서울시 청소년 문화향유 실태에 관한 연구

Abstract

With the rapid social change, its members' way of thinking and living is also undergoing a change. Following the effort to activate a cultural policy with 10-year based cultural development in the 1980s, the cultural policy of the participatory government under the slogan of Creative Cultural Welfare Country tries to activate local culture and increase cultural consumption. This atmosphere has influences on the entire society and is also important for the quality of teenagers' life in growing to be a democratic citizen in the future. This study aims at examining the actual condition of cultural consumption by teenagers who reside in Seoul and presenting a plan to activate their cultural consumption in order to improve the quality of their life. For this purpose, a review is made on the existing literature, along with an analysis of prior researches. An attempt is made to identify characteristics of juvenile culture and significance of teenagers' cultural consumption to confirm the need of their cultural activities; a review is made on prior researches in the present state of cultural policies for teenagers and cultural activities in their daily life areas to make this study more concrete. In particular, teenagers' daily life areas are divided into school culture, leisure culture at home and in society, and cyber space to analyze satisfaction with cultural consumption, the amount of time to use culture, places to use culture, and contents and problems of cultural programs by school years and gender to examine the actual condition of teenagers' cultural consumption on a more concrete basis. From the results of the analysis, teenagers' cultural consumption shows the following characteristics. First, in the school area they had a great demand for cultural activities but the burden of schoolwork made them passively obey the school rules. Second, the kind of culture they consumed for leisure activities was mainly popular culture rather than quality art culture. Third, for cultural consumption, most of them used not cultural places suitable for teenagers but those centered on adults. Fourth, as for leisure activities at home and in society, teenagers were doing consumption-oriented cultural activities to get rid of stress. Fifth, they pursued personal cultural consumption rather than those based on family or community. After analyzing the results of the empirical research in teenagers' cultural consumption, three development plans were presented as follows: First, it is necessary to activate cultural activities by settling a school-based educational welfare project, secure appropriate human resources, and develop a school culture program to meet teenagers' need. Second, it is necessary to develop many kinds of leisure programs for teenagers to control cultural imbalance and develop their cultural desire and cultural sensitivity. Third, it is necessary to secure places and facilities exclusively for teenagers to help them establish self-identity through cultural activities suitable for growth in the adolescent period. Fourth, it is necessary to establish a cultural and art education center to provide teenagers with cultural and art education and integrated service concerning information on culture and art and make contributions to changes in social awareness of leisure. It is believed that this study is significant that it examines the actual condition of youth' cultural enjoyment and searches for a policy in its own way.