| CODE | YTH5033 | ||||||
| TITLE | The Sociology of Youth: Foundational Concepts and New Insights | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 3 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Youth and Community Studies | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Pre-requisite:YTH5013 This study-unit shall provide in-depth and critical examination of the key concepts that have vied for prominence in the sociology of youth from the discipline's rise in the context of the post-war years to the present day. Emphasis shall also be made on charting the impact of sociology's foundational works and theorists on different strands of thought in the sociology of youth. More specially, the Course shall focus on the concept of youth culture and youth subculture, and the dialogue between youth cultural and youth subcultural theorists. In the process, diverse contributors and schools of thought such as the cultural deviance perspective and the Contemporary Centre of Cultural Studies (Birmingham, UK) shall be discussed and appraised. In conclusion, detailed reference shall be made to post-modern theories of youth and the concepts that this corpus of knowledge has forwarded in an attempt to supplant the dominance of the post-war subculture concept. Reading List - Bennet, A. (1999). "Subcultures or Neo-tribes? Re-thinking the Relationship Between Youth, Style and Musical Taste". Sociology 33(3): 599-617. - Bennet, A. (2000). Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan. (2005) - Cultures of Popular Music. Berkshire, England: McGraw-Hill Education /The Open Univerrsity Press. First printed 2001. - Bennet, A.,and K.Kahn-Harris. (eds.). 2004. After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture. Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. - Brake, M. (1985). Comparative Youth Culture: The Sociology of Youth Culture and Youth Subculture in America, Britain and Canada. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. - Callouri, R.A. (1985). The Kids are Alright: New Wave Subcultural Theory. Social Text 12:43-53. - Chaney,D. (1996). Lifestyles. London: Routledge. - Cloward, R.A., and L. E. Ohlin. (1961). Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. First published 1960. - Cohen, A.K. (1955). Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. Chicago: Free Press. - Cohen, P. (1997). Subcultural Conflict and Working-class Community. Pp.90-99 in The Subcultures Reader, edited by Gelder, K., and S. Thornton. London and New York: Routledge. First printed in - Working Papers in Cultural Studies 2. University of Birmingham: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. 1972. - Cohen, S. (1993). Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers. First published 1972. - Corrighan,P. (1979). Schooling the Smash Street Kids. London:MacMillan. - Corrighan, P., and S.Frith. (2000). The Politics of Youth Culture. Pp. 231-241 in Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain, edited by Hall, S., and T. Jefferson. London: Routledge. First published 1975. - Epstein, J.S. (1999). Generation X, Youth Culture and Identity. Pp. 1-23 in Youth Culture: Identity in a Post-Modern World. Edited by Epstein, J.S. Malden, MA: Blackwell. First printed 1998. - Garcìa Canclini, N. [1990] 1995. Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity. Translated by Chiappari, C.L., and S.L. Lòpez. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. - Gelder, K. and S. Thornton. (eds.) (1997). The Subcultures Reader. London: Routledge. - Hebdige, D. (1979). Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London and New York: Routledge. - Jenks, C. (2005). Subculture: The Fragmentation of the Social. London: Sage. - McRobbie, A., and J. Garber. (2000).Girls and Subcultures: An Exploration. Pp.209-222 in Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain, edited by Hall, S., and T. Jefferson. London: Routledge. First published 1975. - Merton, R.K. (1938). Social Structure and Anomie. American Sociological Review 13. Pp. 673-683. - Merton R.K. (1957). Social Theory and Social Structure. New York: Wiley. - Miles, S. (2000). Youth Lifestyles in a Changing World. Buckingham: Open University Press. - Muggleton, D. 2000. Inside Subculture:The Postmodern Meaning of Style. Oxford: Berg. - Muggleton, D., and R. Wienzierl. (eds.). (2004). The Post-Subcultures Reader, edited by Muggleton, D., and R. Weinzierl. Oxford: Berg. - Polhemus, T. (1997). The Supermarket of Style. Pp 130-133 in The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Culture Studies, edited by Redhead, S., D. Wynne and J.O'Connor. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. - Redhead, S. (1997). Subcultures to Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies. Oxford: Blackwell. - Redhead, S., D.Wynne and J.O'Connor. (eds.). (1997). The Clubcultures Reader: Readings in Popular Culture Studies. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. - Thornton, S. (2001). Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital. Cambridge, UK. Polity Press. First printed 1995. - Willis, P. (1978a). Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs. London: Saxon House.(1978b). - Profane Culture. Boston, MA: Routledge and Kegan Paul. (1996). - Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young. Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press. First printed 1990. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Albert Bell |
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