Essay on Types of Youth Unrest – The youth unrest has assumed different forms. In no country, the youth unrest takes place for the same reason and assumes the same form all the time. The nature of youth unrest is that it is unsteady, irregular and sometimes happens spontaneously. Myron Weiner has classified the student unrest into four types.
Myron Weiner’s Classification of Youth Unrest:
According to Myron Weiner, the so called student indiscipline or youth unrest assumes four forms. They are as follows:
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1. Political Activities and Movements:
In some instances, youth unrest is associated with the larger political movements. Students often take up political issues and join hands with other non- youth organisations and political parties and fight for them.
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Students have participated in various political movements launched for issues such as border disputes, steel plant location, price rise, water dispute, anti-Hindi and anti-English agitations, emergency, postponement of elections, dismissal of ministers, etc. They have taken out processions, staged demonstrations, gheraoed ministers, resorted to violence and conflicted with police authorities.
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2. Student Agitations for Educational Causes:
Students have agitated for educational causes also. Students have agitated demanding the appointment of lecturers, enough supply of laboratory equipments and library books, cancellation of donation and capitation fees, reforms in examination system and type of question papers, retainment of carry over system, recognition of the student union, participation of students in University administrative bodies such as senate, syndicate, academic councils, postponement of examination, etc.
3. Agitations against Non-University Authorities:
Students have agitated for non-educational and non-political causes also. For example, they have agitated demanding special concessions for travelling in buses and trains, concessions in commercial recreational centres.
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4. Spontaneous Student Agitations:
Sometimes, students do agitate suddenly in an unexpected manner. They may quarrel with bus conductors, auto-rickshaw drivers, hotel-owners, police and public servants, and may even go on strike against them. These agitations can be treated as spontaneous outbursts of youth force. If these agitations are not handled carefully they may be intensified and prolonged in still worse a way.