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The trouble with class: researching youth, class and culture beyond the 'Birmingham School'.
- Source :
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Journal of Youth Studies . May2011, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p245-259. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This paper revisits the work on youth cultures and subcultures that emerged from Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (hereafter CCCS) during the 1970s. I engage with a number of recent critiques of the 'youth sub/cultures project', including Thornton's influential work on rave and club cultures and its troubled engagement with class. I argue that the focus of the youth sub/cultures project on mediated cultural practices through which young people constitute themselves and their (gendered, classed and racialised) positions remains of value, especially the emphasis on a 'symptomatic reading' that locates these processes in a 'conjunctural analysis'. I end by exploring the legacy of this project for understanding youth, class and culture in contemporary late modern society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *YOUTH culture
*SOCIAL classes
*GENDER
*SUBCULTURES
*CULTURAL education
*CULTURE
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13676261
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Youth Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 59530278
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2010.533757