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Teaching and Learning Guide for: Youth‐Subculture Studies: Sociological Traditions and Core Concepts
Author(s) -
Williams J. Patrick
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
sociology compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 31
ISSN - 1751-9020
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00090.x
Subject(s) - sociology , deviance (statistics) , moral panic , ethnography , subculture (biology) , youth culture , media studies , social science , epistemology , anthropology , criminology , gender studies , philosophy , botany , statistics , mathematics , biology
Studies of youth subcultures have been carried out for decades from varioustheoretical perspectives (including functionalism, social ecology, neo-Marxism,deviance and labeling, cultural studies, sports and leisure studies) as well as fromvarious methodological standpoints (e.g., deductive and inductive approaches,insider and outsider perspectives, ethnographic, historical comparative, and semiotics).The sociological study of youth subcultures thus offers a wide range of oppor-tunities to bring together an interesting topic for young people and theoreticalor methodological pedagogies.