Subcultures: The Basics: Edition 2
About this ebook
- What is a subculture? What are the significant theories of subculture?
- How do subcultures emerge, who participates and why?
- How do subcultural identities interact with other aspects of self, such as social class, race, gender, and sexual identity?
- What is the relationship between deviance, resistance and the ‘mainstream’?
- How have both progressive and reactionary subculturists contributed to social change?
- How does society react to different subcultures?
- How have subcultures spread around the world?
- In what ways do digital technologies and social media influence subcultures?
- What happens when subculturists age?
Tracing the history and development of subcultural theory to the present day, this text is essential reading for all those studying subcultures in the contexts of sociology, cultural studies, history, media studies, anthropology, musicology, and criminology. It pushes the field forward with cutting-edge theories of resistance and social change, place and space, critical race and queer studies, virtual participation, and ageing and participation across the life course. Key terms and concepts are highlighted throughout the text whilst each chapter includes boxed case studies and signposts students to further reading and resources.
About the author
Ross Haenfler is Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, USA. His interests revolve around subcultures, music, and social movements, and his research focuses on how people engage in social change via lifestyle movements. He is the author of Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change (2006), and Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls: Deviance and Youth Subcultures (2012). He has published in a variety of journals, including Social Movement Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, and Cultural Sociology, and has appeared in documentaries about straight edge and incels.
