After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture

by Andy Bennett (Editor), Keith Kahn-Harris (Editor)

The concept of 'subculture' has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of sustained critique, it still provides a valuable point of reference for study and research. This text offers students an up-to-date and wide-ranging account of new developments in youth culture research that reject, refine or reinvent the concept of subculture. Bringing together key theoretical statements with illuminating analyzes of particular aspects of youth culture - popular music, clubbing, body modification, the internet, etc. - this is an ideal introduction to a diverse and wide-ranging field.

Genres: Sociology

195 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 2004

Reviews

[Courtney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good case studies and an a clear delineation of different subcultures pre-social media in its current iteration, it would’ve been really useful to have when I was writing my undergrad dissertation!

[Amin · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept is brilliant; though it could have been written in a simpler and less confusing language.