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Subcultural Theory

Author : J. Patrick Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745637329
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Subcultural Theory written by J. Patrick Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, stratification, resistance, identity, media and "post subcultures". 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.

Subculture

Author : Dick Hebdige
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136494731
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Subculture written by Dick Hebdige and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. ‘New Accents’ is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

The Subcultural Imagination

Author : Shane Blackman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317549716
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Subcultural Imagination written by Shane Blackman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Subcultural Imagination discusses young adults in subcultures and examines how sociologists use qualitative research methods to study them. Through the application of the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the development of theory-reflexive ethnography, this book analyses the experiences of young people in different subcultural settings, as well as reflecting on how young people in subcultures interact in the wider context of society, biography and history. From Cuba to London, and Bulgaria to Asia, this book delves into urban spaces and street corners, young people’s parties, gigs, BDSM fetish clubs, school, the home, and feminist zines to offer a picture of live sociology in practice. In three parts, the volume explores: history, biography and subculture; practising reflexivity in the field; epistemologies, pedagogies and the subcultural subject. The book offers cutting edge theory and rich empirical research on social class, gender and ethnicities from both established and new researchers across diverse disciplinary backgrounds. It moves the subcultural debate beyond the impasse of the term’s relevance, to one where researchers are fully engaged with the lives of the subcultural subjects. This innovative edited collection will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of sociology, youth studies, media and cultural studies/communication, research methods and ethnography, popular music studies, criminology, politics, social and cultural theory, and gender studies.

Anomie, Strain and Subcultural Theories of Crime

Author : Joanne M. Kaufman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351957988
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Anomie, Strain and Subcultural Theories of Crime written by Joanne M. Kaufman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anomie, strain and subcultural theories are among the leading theories of crime. Anomie theories state that crime results from the failure of society to regulate adequately the behavior of individuals, particularly the efforts of individuals to achieve monetary success. Strain theories focus on the impact of strains or stressors on crime, including the inability to achieve monetary success through legal channels. And subcultural theories argue that some individuals turn to crime because they belong to groups that excuse, justify or approve of crime. This volume presents the leading selections on each theory, including the original statements of the theories, key efforts to revise the theories, and the latest statements of each theory. The coeditors, Robert Agnew and Joanne Kaufman, are prominent strain theorists; and their introductory essay provides an overview of the theories, discusses the relationship between them, and introduces each of the selections.

The Delinquent Solution (Routledge Revivals)

Author : David Downes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113501907X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Delinquent Solution (Routledge Revivals) written by David Downes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues such as the concept and theory of subcultures, the life of delinquent gangs, and the English experience of delinquent subcultures. It also takes an in-depth look at the Stepney and Poplar survey on crime from 1960, analysing both statistical data and more informal observations. Although the book was written over forty years ago, the issues discussed remain relevant and strong areas of interest.

Criminology

Author : Gennaro F. Vito
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763730017
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Criminology written by Gennaro F. Vito and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, crime is a consistent public concern. The authors have produced a comprehensive work on major criminological theories, combining classical criminology with new topics, such as Internet crime and terrorism. The text also focuses on how criminology shapes public policy.

Chilling Out

Author : Blackman, Shane
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335200729
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Chilling Out written by Blackman, Shane and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author critically examines the assumptions underlying drug prohibition and explores the contradictions of drug prevention policies.

Understanding Youth In Late Modernity

Author : France, Alan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335215343
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Youth In Late Modernity written by France, Alan and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Understanding Youth in Late Modernity is a highly readable book which lends itself bothas a solid introduction and a reference point to the historical developments and theoreticaldebates taking place within the discipline of youth studies. This book provides a highly accessible text for anybody interested in the subject of youth and its changing role in late modernity. I thoroughly recommend it." Journal of Contemporary European Studies This illuminating new book embeds our understanding of the youth question within a historical context. It shows how the ideas of past political action, in conjunction with the diverse paradigms of social science disciplines, have shaped modern conceptions of the youth question. This relationship between the political and the academic is then explored through a detailed examination of contemporary debates about youth, in areas such as; transitions, education, crime policy and criminology, consumption and youth culture. From this analysis the book is able to show how the youth question in late modernity is being shaped. This important text includes: A historical overview of the making of modern youth, identifying major changes that took place over three centuries Examples of how political and academic responses construct youth as a social problem An evaluation of the impact of social change in late modernity on our understanding of the youth question and the everyday lives of the young. The book concludes by suggesting that in contemporary understandings of the youth question significant differences exist between the political and the academic. Major challenges exist if this gap is to be addressed and a new public social science needs to emerge that reconstitutes debates about youth within a form of communicative democracy. Understanding Youth in Late Modernity is key reading for students and academics interested in the historical conception of the youth problem, its evolution throughout modernity and endeavours to find a solution.

The Place of Music

Author : Andrew Leyshon
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572303140
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Place of Music written by Andrew Leyshon and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1998-03-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is omnipresent in human society, but its language can no longer be regarded as transcendent or universal. Like other art forms, music is produced and consumed within complex economic, cultural, and political frameworks in different places and at different historical moments. Taking an explicitly spatial approach, this unique interdisciplinary text explores the role played by music in the formation and articulation of geographical imaginations--local, regional, national, and global. Contributors show how music's facility to be recorded, stored, and broadcast; to be performed and received in private and public; and to rouse intense emotional responses for individuals and groups make it a key force in the definition of a place. Covering rich and varied terrain--from Victorian England, to 1960s Los Angeles, to the offices of Sony and Time-Warner and the landscapes of the American Depression--the volume addresses such topics as the evolution of musical genres, the globalization of music production and marketing, alternative and hybridized music scenes as sites of localized resistance, the nature of soundscapes, and issues of migration and national identity.

Drugs and Drug Policy

Author : Clayton J. Mosher
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0761930078
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Drugs and Drug Policy written by Clayton J. Mosher and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drugs and Drug Policy: The Control of Consciousness Alteration provides a cross-national perspective on the regulation of drug use by examining and critiquing drug policies in the United States and abroad in terms of their scope, goals, and effectiveness. In this engaging text, authors Clayton J. Mosher and Scott Akins discuss the physiological, psychological, and behavioral effects of legal and illicit drugs; the patterns and correlates of use; and theories of the "causes" of drug use. Key Features: * Offers more coverage of drug policy issues than competitive books: This book addresses the number of significant developments over the last few decades that suggest the dynamics of drug use and policies to deal with drug use are at a critical juncture. The book also considers the issue of "American exceptionalism" with respect to drug policies through a detailed analysis of emerging drug polices in other Western nations. * Makes explicit comparisons between legal and illegal drugs: Due to their prevalence of use, this book devotes considerable attention to the use and regulation of legal drugs in society. The book illustrates that commonly prescribed medications are similar to drugs that are among the most feared and harshly punished in society and that drug-related problems do not necessarily result from particular drugs, but from how drugs are used. * Includes many pedagogical tools: With chapter opening photos and more photos throughout, this text presents material in a student- friendly fashion. Highlight boxes provide interesting examples for readers; encourage further emphasis on issues; and serve as important topics for in class writing exercises. In addition, Internet exercises and review questions reinforce key points made in the chapter and prompt classroom discussion.

Structural Idealism

Author : Doug Mann
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889203911
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Structural Idealism written by Doug Mann and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A challenge to our perception of how cultures and ideals are formed, this book shows that while structural ideals allow people to co-operate as they work toward goals - their own or those of their community - these images of perfection, so easily accepted as the unalterable structure of our society, can be changed, and are changed by individuals.

The Anomie Tradition in Delinquent Subcultural Theory

Author : Cyrus Shepard Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Anomie Tradition in Delinquent Subcultural Theory written by Cyrus Shepard Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology

Author : Derek B. Scott
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754664765
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Musicology written by Derek B. Scott and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research presented in this volume is very recent, and the general approach is that of rethinking popular musicology: its purpose, its aims, and its methods. Contributors to the volume were asked to write something original and, at the same time, to provide an instructive example of a particular way of working and thinking. The essays have been written with a view to helping graduate students with research methodology and the application of relevant theoretical models. The Ashgate Research Companion is designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companion's editor brings together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.

Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism

Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism written by Claude S. Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Subculture

Author : Rupa Huq
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134470657
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Subculture written by Rupa Huq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using case studies and first-hand interviews with consumers and producers including Noel Gallagher and Talvin Singh, Rupa Huq investigates a series of musically-centred global youth cultures and re-examines the link between music and subcultures.

Creating Autoethnographies

Author : Tessa Muncey
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1847874738
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Creating Autoethnographies written by Tessa Muncey and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever practical text on this increasingly popular research method, it provides a background and considers some of the criticisms of the approach. It is suitable for all social science students, both graduate and upper level undergraduate. The book is structured to mirror the process of writing about experience, from establishing an idea through to the process of writing and the development of creative writing skills, and provides detailed worked examples of the whole process. The final two chapters are devoted to exploring two cases in which readers can see the principles discussed in action. There are also a wide range of case studies drawn from a wide a range of social science disciplines and exercises throughout the text.

Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe

Author : George McKay
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039119219
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe written by George McKay and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive ethnographic research, this collection uses a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodologies to examine some of the many subcultures and new religious movements that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism.