Question

choose three U.S. society core values and discuss whether they impact or are being impacted by the shaping of "cool" for teenagers.

Answer 1

Three U.S. society core values : Freedom, Privacy, and Free enterprise.

Freedom is impacted by the shaping of "cool" for teenagers because as new fads and technologies are developed and problems related to them arise, they are followed by laws, rules and values based on those fads and technologies. For example, when too many teenagers began "sagging" their pants because it was "cool", some jurisdictions passed laws against it.

Privacy is impacted by the shaping of "cool" for teenagers as new technologies are developed that create new invasions of that privacy. Case in point, Facebook created far reaching questions on privacy while at the same time being sold as "cool" to teenagers in college.

Free Enterprise is impacting the shaping of "cool" for teenagers as new technologies and fads are developed. Free Enterprise allowed Air Jordans, IPhones, Coca Cola and Levis jeans to exist, and thus market themselves to teenagers as, "cool".