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Lifestyles and subcultures are tools through which people say - to
themselves and to others - who they think they are, who they think
they are similar to, and who they think they are different from.
Lifestyles and subcultures are ways which people adopt to look at
their own lives, and to try to keep together different roles,
different practices and different realms which they are involved
in. Lifestyles and subcultures are lenses through which we, as
observers, analyze society, and orientate ourselves within it,
looking for similarities and differences among individuals and
collectivities which allow us to understand their thoughts and
their actions. This book presents the main analytical approaches
through which lifestyles and subcultures have been studied, and
also proposes a new interpretative perspective. Today a growing
panorama of social phenomena and processes possess intermediate
characteristics with regard to those which in the past were
identified either as lifestyles or as subcultures. The hypothesis
is that consequently these phenomena could be explained and
interpreted by means of an analytical framework developed by the
intersection of these two perspectives, and the last part of the
book is therefore devoted to the presentation of this innovative
framework. This book provides new lenses and a fresh view to try to
both grasp and understand a constantly-changing reality.
This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical
research and existing literature to examine transgressive
subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces
(DSS). The book addresses four objectives: 1. To understand how
young peoples' subcultures arise online and they are constructed
and experienced in DSS 2. To understand how and why DSS matter to
young people 3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these
online spaces and 4. To understand how identity locations such as
social class, gender and ethnicity and/or their intersections shape
young peoples' engagement and behaviour(s) in DSS. In addressing
these objectives with a focus on European contributions, the text
provides a holistic understanding of the purpose of digital social
spaces in shaping young peoples' identities and self-perceptions.
It will be of interest to postgraduate students, secondary school
teachers, lecturers and scholars in education, sociology, youth
studies and technology.
Lifestyles and subcultures are tools through which people say - to
themselves and to others - who they think they are, who they think
they are similar to, and who they think they are different from.
Lifestyles and subcultures are ways which people adopt to look at
their own lives, and to try to keep together different roles,
different practices and different realms which they are involved
in. Lifestyles and subcultures are lenses through which we, as
observers, analyze society, and orientate ourselves within it,
looking for similarities and differences among individuals and
collectivities which allow us to understand their thoughts and
their actions. This book presents the main analytical approaches
through which lifestyles and subcultures have been studied, and
also proposes a new interpretative perspective. Today a growing
panorama of social phenomena and processes possess intermediate
characteristics with regard to those which in the past were
identified either as lifestyles or as subcultures. The hypothesis
is that consequently these phenomena could be explained and
interpreted by means of an analytical framework developed by the
intersection of these two perspectives, and the last part of the
book is therefore devoted to the presentation of this innovative
framework. This book provides new lenses and a fresh view to try to
both grasp and understand a constantly-changing reality.
This book draws together both primary and secondary empirical
research and existing literature to examine transgressive
subcultural activities and engagement in digital social spaces
(DSS). The book addresses four objectives: 1. To understand how
young peoples' subcultures arise online and they are constructed
and experienced in DSS 2. To understand how and why DSS matter to
young people 3. To understand if any DSS controls exist in these
online spaces and 4. To understand how identity locations such as
social class, gender and ethnicity and/or their intersections shape
young peoples' engagement and behaviour(s) in DSS. In addressing
these objectives with a focus on European contributions, the text
provides a holistic understanding of the purpose of digital social
spaces in shaping young peoples' identities and self-perceptions.
It will be of interest to postgraduate students, secondary school
teachers, lecturers and scholars in education, sociology, youth
studies and technology.
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