Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 6
SUBCULTURES, CULTURES AND CLASS: A theoretical overview......Page 10
SOME NOTES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOCIETAL CONTROL CULTURE AND THE NEWS MEDIA: The construction of a law and order campaign......Page 76
CULTURAL RESPONSES OF THE TEDS: The defence of space and status......Page 82
THE MEANING OF MOD......Page 88
THE SKINHEADS AND THE MAGICAL RECOVERY OF COMMUNITY......Page 100
DOING NOTHING......Page 104
THE CULTURAL MEANING OF DRUG USE......Page 107
ETHNOGRAPHY THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS: The case of Howard Becker......Page 120
COMMUNES: A thematic typology......Page 128
REGGAE, RASTAS AND RUDIES......Page 136
APPENDIX: Unemployment, the context of street boy culture......Page 155
A STRATEGY FOR LIVING: Black music and white subcultures......Page 158
STRUCTURES, CULTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES......Page 168
STYLE......Page 176
CONSCIOUSNESS OF CLASS AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF GENERATION......Page 193
GIRLS AND SUBCULTURES: An exploration......Page 210
A NOTE ON MARGINALITY......Page 224
THE POLITICS OF YOUTH CULTURE......Page 232
NATURALISTIC RESEARCH INTO SUBCULTURES AND DEVIANCE: An account of a sociological tendency......Page 244
THE LOGIC OF ENQUIRY OF PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION: A critical review......Page 254
REFERENCES......Page 275
INDEX......Page 287