A Clockwork Orange and the Society of Choice.

In A Clockwork Orange the stability of the state trumps the individual's happiness.
Crisis of cultural capital. Alex has an ambitious sense of cultural capital. This is expressed through consumption, particularly the consumption of music. .
The downfall of Alex arguably begins when Dim criticise Alex's consumption of Beethoven.
Whenever the gang of droogs attack Alex orchestrates the violence as art.
Alex uses art to kill the cat lady, and then kills part of himself by denying that art, and the world of high culture.
From a sociological standpoint young people present themselves in opposition to the norm. As youth couldn't change society, they have always tried to change things symbolically.
However there are arguments against. Some claim that young people given too much prominence in social change; that they merely reproduce orthodoxy.
In 2002 Boudrillard states "what if TV represented nothing more than itself in its message? "It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
We are arguably implicit in the society depicted in A Clockwork Orange.