ISBN:
9780745672847
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (160 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.1
Keywords:
Subculture
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Subcultural phenomena continue to draw attention from many areas of contemporary society, including the news media, the marketing and fashion industries, concerned parents, religious, and other citizen groups, as well as academia. Research into these phenomena has spanned the humanities and social sciences and the subcultural theories that underlie this work are similarly interdisciplinary. Subcultural Theory brings these diverse analytic issues together in a single text, offering readers a concise discussion of the major concepts and debates that have developed over more than eighty years of subcultural research, including style, resistance, deviance, identity, space, and media. The text emphasizes methods, concepts and analysis rather than mere descriptions of individual subcultures, all the while ensuring readers will gain insight into past and present youthful subcultures, including mod, punk, hardcore, straightedge, messenger, goth, riot grrrl, hip?hop, skinhead, and extreme metal, among others. The book closes with an assessment of the subculture concept as a viable and useful sociological tool in comparison with other fields of study including social movements and fandom.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Images -- Preface -- 1. Subcultural Theory -- Defining subculture -- Problems theorizing subculture -- Outline of the book -- 2. Theoretical and Methodological Traditions -- American traditions I - the Chicago School and urban ethnography -- American traditions II - deviance and strain -- British traditions I - the Birmingham School and cultural studies -- British traditions II - from the Manchester School to post-subculture studies -- Back to subculture - the symbolic interactionist tradition -- 3. Race, Gender, and Subcultural Experience -- From tsotsis to gangstas: "a living record" of race and masculinity -- Negotiating the masculine bias: gender and "the master's tools" -- Summary -- 4. Style: with Jeffrey L. Kidder -- The meaning of style -- From consumption to subcultural style -- Homology: ideology, image, and practice -- Semiotic homologies: teddy boys, skinheads, mods, and punks -- Ethnographic homologies: rockers, hippies, messengers, and homegirls -- The value of style: diffusion and defusion -- Summary -- 5. Resistance -- Power and hegemony -- Multiple dimensions of resistance -- Passive ↔ active -- Micro ↔ macro -- Overt ↔ covert -- Summary -- 6. Labels and Moral Panics -- From social reaction theory to a sociology of moral panics -- From music-lovers to satanic killers: endless cycles of subcultural folk devils -- Raves, drugs, and postmodern media -- Summary -- 7. Identity and Authenticity -- Insiders and outsiders -- Status hierarchies -- Identity and authenticity -- Summary -- 8. Scales -- Sociological scales -- Spatial scales -- Summary -- 9. Related Fields: with Elizabeth Cherry -- Social movements -- Collective identity -- Lifestyle politics -- Participatory cultures and fandom -- Parallels -- Tensions -- Summary -- 10. A Final Note on Concepts.
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