Subcultural theory: traditions and concepts

by Williams, J. Patrick

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Full title :Subcultural theory : traditions and concepts / J. Patrick Williams.

Summary

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. -- Back cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:x, 214 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780745643878, 0745643876, 9780745643885, 0745643884
oclc:ocn682281418
LC Classification:HM646
Dewey Decimal:306.1

1. Subcultural theory -- 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-subcultural 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" -- 4. Style / with Jeffrey L. Kidder -- 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 -- 5. Resistance -- Power and hegemony -- Multiple dimensions of resistance -- Passive: active -- Micro: macro -- Overt: covert -- 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…