| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 192 pages) |
| Series |
Youth, young adulthood and society |
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Youth, young adulthood and society.
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| Contents |
From here to modernity: rethinking the Youth Question with C. Wright Mills / Phil Cohen -- Subcultural and post-subcultural compatibility: the case of Cuban underground rap / Eleni Dimou -- From bad to worse? Marginalised youth and 'road life' (mis)representations and realities / Anthony Gunter -- The emotional imagination: exploring critical ventriloquy and emotional edgework in reflexive sociological ethnography with young people / Shane Blackman -- Rachele through the looking glass: researching the occupational subculture of lap-dancers / Rachela Colosi -- 'Biography in the laboratory': applying the Chicago School approach to dual researcher positionality within the night-time economy / Robert McPherson -- Temporary reflexive disempowerment: working through fieldwork ethnography and its impact on a female researcher / Gemma Commane -- Understanding nightlife identities and divisions through the subculture/post-subculture debate / Robert Hollands -- Feminism, subculture and the production of knowledge: developing intersectional epistemologies amidst the reflexive turn / Michelle Kempson -- Bulgarian post-transitional subcultures: insider ethnographic research of the underground scene / Vihra Barova -- Connecting personal troubles and public issues in Asian subculture studies / J. Patrick Williams -- Conclusions: C. Wright Mills, the 'subcultural' imagination, reflexivity and the subcultural subject / Shane Blackman and Michelle Kempson |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 1st, 2023) |
| Subject |
Youth -- Social conditions
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Youth -- Social life and customs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Youth -- Social conditions
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Youth -- Social life and customs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blackman, Shane J., editor.
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Kempson, Michelle, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317549710 |
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1317549716 |
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9781317549727 |
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1317549724 |
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9781315730684 |
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1315730685 |
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9781317549703 |
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1317549708 |
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