Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes / Edition 1

by Paul Hodkinson, Wolfgang Deicke

Overview

Featuring both well known and emerging scholars from the UK, the USA and mainland Europe, this fascinating new volume addresses core theoretical and methodological developments before going on to examine key substantive themes in the study of young people's identities and lifestyles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415376129
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2007
Series:	Routledge Advances in Sociology , #26
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Hodkinson is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK.

Wolfgang Deicke is Tutor in Politics at Ruskin College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

1. Youth Cultures: A Critical Summary of Key Debates 2. As Young as You Feel: Youth as Discursive Construct 3. Recent Concepts in Youth Cultural Studies: Critical Reflections From the Sociology of Music 4. ‘Insider’ and ‘Outsider’ Issues in Youth Research 5. Rethinking the Subcultural Commodity: Exploring Heavy Metal T-Shirt Culture/s 6. Empowerment or Incorporation? Youth Policy Making and Hip Hop Culture 7. Resistance and Commercialisation in ‘Distasteful Movements’: Right-wing Politics and Youth Culture in East Germany 8. Gender, Status and Subcultural Capital in Gothic Style 9. Homegirls Remembered: Discourse And Literacy Practices Among U.S. Latina Gang Girls 10. Youth Culture and Ethnicity: Emerging Youth Multiculture in South London 11. Youth Claiming Space: The Case of Pittsburgh's Mr. Roboto Project 12. Hip-Hop’s Musicians and Audience in the Local Musical ‘Milieu’ 13. Pin-Up Punks: the Reality of a Virtual Community 14. A ‘Bounded Virtuality’: ICTs and Youth in Alghero, Sardinia 15. Identity and Structure in Online Gaming: Young People’s Symbolic and Virtual Extensions of Self