Comparative Youth Culture: The Sociology of Youth Cultures and Youth Subcultures in America, Britain, and Canada

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface ix
• Chapter 1 - The Use of Subculture as an Analytical Tool in Sociology 1
• Chapter 2 - Street-Wise. the Delinquent Subculture in Sociological Theory in the United States 30
• Chapter 3 - Just Another Brick in the Wall. British Studies of Working-Class Youth Cultures 58
• Chapter 4 - The Trippers and the Trashers— Bohemian and Radical Traditions of Youth 83
• Chapter 5 - Hustling, Breaking and Rapping— Black and Brown Youth 116
• Chapter 6 - ‘Take off Eh!’—Youth Culture in Canada 144
• Chapter 7 - The Invisible Girl— The Culture of Femininity versus Masculinism 163
• Chapter 8 - No Future? Subcultures, Manufactured Cultures and the Economy 184
• Bibliography 199
• Index 225