Value Conflicts Between Local and Global Culture in Adolescent Socialization: A Sociological Review of Norm Shifts and Social Identity Transformation

Abstract

The intersection of global cultural flows and local cultural traditions in the socialization of Indonesian adolescents has emerged as a critical site of sociological inquiry, particularly as accelerating digital connectivity has compressed the cultural distances that previously insulated local communities from the immediate influence of global media, consumption practices, and identity frameworks. This article examines the dynamics of value conflict arising at the intersection of local and global culture in adolescent socialization, with particular attention to the Indonesian context, through an integrative theoretical framework drawing upon Anthony Giddens's structuration theory and theory of late modernity, Arjun Appadurai's concept of global cultural flows and 'scapes,' and Peter Berger's sociology of knowledge and plausibility structures. Through systematic qualitative review of empirical literature and secondary analysis of national survey data on Indonesian adolescent identity and socialization patterns, the study maps six principal domains of value conflict — language, religious and moral norms, gender roles, consumption and lifestyle, civic values, and leisure practices — and traces the processes through which adolescents negotiate these conflicts to construct hybrid social identities that are neither fully traditional nor wholly globalized. The analysis reveals three key dynamics: the domain-specificity of value conflict intensity, which varies significantly across socialization domains; the mediating role of digital platforms, which accelerate global cultural exposure while simultaneously creating new platforms for local cultural assertion; and the emergence of 'reflexive hybridization' as the dominant adolescent identity strategy, wherein global and local cultural elements are selectively combined in configurations that are distinctively generational in their logic and aesthetics. The study contributes to the sociology of adolescence, cultural globalization studies, and Indonesian social theory by demonstrating that adolescent value conflict is not a pathological indicator of cultural disintegration but a constitutive feature of social identity formation in the condition of reflexive late modernity.

Keywords

Adolescent socialization; value conflict; cultural globalization; local culture; social identity; Giddens; Appadurai; Indonesia; hybridization; digital culture