Youth Cultures

Routledge Advances in Sociology

by Paul Hodkinson (Editor), Wolfgang Deicke (Editor)

Youth Cultures offers a comprehensive outline of youth cultural studies in the twenty-first century, with reference to a range of new research case studies. Featuring both well known and emerging scholars from the UK, the US and mainland Europe, the book addresses core theoretical and methodological developments before going on to examine key substantive themes in the study of young people's identities and lifestyles. These include questions of commerce, power and politics, issues of gender and ethnicity, uses of place and space and impacts of new media and communications. Simultaneously offering an accessible introduction and a range of new contributions to the subject area, Youth Cultures will appeal to both students and academics within a range of disciplines, including sociology, media and cultural studies, youth studies and popular music studies.

278 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Paul Hodkinson is a sociologist whose work is focused upon youth cultures, online communications and on the relationships between media and cultural identities. He is author of Media, Culture and Society and Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture. He is also co-editor of Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes and Ageing and Youth Cultures. His recent research has focused upon young people's use of online communications, processes of ageing among 'youth' subcultural participants and the victimisation of members of alternative subcultures. He is Reader in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey.

(from personal website)

Reviews

[Miroslaw Aleksander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Starts of very well (the book is worth buying for the first three chapters alone), but the later essays tend to get very specific (which is not a bad thing at all, they simply didn't prove as useful for me on a professional level) or a tad to simplistic.
Other strong points would include the chapters by Deicke, Brill and Brown.