Blur : A New Paradigm for Understanding Youth Culture, Paperback, Jeffrey Keuss

BlurA New Paradigm for Understanding Youth Culture\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey Keuss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Zondervan, United States\nImprint: Zondervan\nISBN-13: 9780310514848, 978-0310514848\nSynopsis\nBETTER INFORMED,\nBETTER EQUIPPED TO MINISTER\n\nto todays blurred youth culture\n\nMobile. Connected. Wired in. This is a generation that skips over perceived cultural boundaries and resists definition. They are a mash-up of identity, a blur of old categories and classes. Creators and consumers of a rapidly changing culture.\n\nBut how does one reach a demographic that is so difficult to pin down?\n\nMany of the most popular approaches to youth ministry today begin by portraying youth as collections of fixed snapshots, profiles based on sociological research studies. Yet according to Dr. Jeff Keuss, todays teens cannot be adequately characterized by these simplistic and static descriptions. Keuss argues that what is needed, instead, is a qualitative approach to describing young peop.