Subculture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aeron O’connor (0000-0002-4779-5686, Trent University, corresponding author), Alan O'Connor |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss295.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4251789836 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Gangs were studied by urban sociologists in the 1920s, research that continues to the present. Radical criminologists from the 1950s and 1960s described deviance as a form of labeling by those powerful enough to make their labels stick. Outsiders developed their own subcultures. Research in cultural studies from the 1970s attempted to develop a class analysis of youth subcultures. This led to the criticism that most teens are not members of subcultures and that prominent subcultures actually include a diversity of positions
Criminology · Criticism · Deviance (statistics · Diversity (politics · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Subculture (biology · Youth culture · Anthropology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Music History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |