What are the ties that bind the 'good youth citizen' and the youth activist in the twenty-first century? Contemporary young people are encouraged - through education and other cultural sites - to 'save the world' via community projects that resemble activism, yet increasingly ri…
What are the ties that bind the 'good youth citizen' and the youth activist in the twenty-first century? Contemporary young people are encouraged - through education and other cultural sites - to 'save the world' via community projects that resemble activism, yet increasingly ri…
"What are the ties that bind the 'good youth citizen' and the youth activist in the twenty-first century? Contemporary young people are encouraged-- through education and other cultural sites -- to 'save the world' via community projects that resemble activism, yet increasingly …
Bringing together key theoretical statements with analyses of particular aspects of youth culture - music, clubbing, body modification and the internet - this text offers a wide-ranging account of developments in youth culture research that reject, refine or reinvent the concept…
by Lane, Harlan L., Hedberg, Ulf, Pillard, Richard
Offering an in-depth sociological analysis of the movement, this book follows the lives of dozens of straight-edge youths, showing how for these young men and women, and thousands of others worldwide, the adoption of the straight-edge doctrine as a way to better themselves evolv…
Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually responsible lifestyle-tenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those typical of teenage rebellion. F…
This book presents a 'travellers guide' to deaf culture, starting from the premise that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make other academic disciplines, and to human lives in general. Within and outside deaf communities, there is a need for an account of the new …
