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“In the Clique”: Popular Culture, Constructions of Place, and the Everyday Lives of Urban Youth
Author(s) -
Dimitriadis Greg
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2001.32.1.29
Subject(s) - popular culture , sociology , construct (python library) , clique , everyday life , media studies , gender studies , social science , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , programming language
This study focuses on two teens, Tony and Rufus, and how they used key popular texts to construct a sense of place in the small city where this research was conducted. These two teens mobilized these popular texts in very specific ways, both finding specific thematic links between and across them and also using them to index their relationships with biological and extended family in this city and “down South.” This study highlights the complex, emergent, and messy relationships many young people have with popular culture.