Interpreting Subcultures

Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Sense-Making Practices in Alternative Cultures

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1861-9 (ISBN)

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This book makes an unprecedented contribution to the field by explaining the interpretive processes through which subcultural phenomena are studied. Examining dimensions of interpretivism, it reveals how and why people decide to use specific conceptual frames or methodologies and how they shape their interpretations of everyday realities.

The concept of ’subculture’ is an invaluable tool to frame the study of non-normative and marginal cultures for social and cultural scholars.

This international collection uncovers the significance of meaning-making in the processes of defining, studying and analyzing subcultural phenomena.

Examining various dimensions of interpretivism, the book focuses on overarching concerns related to interpretation as well as day-to-day considerations that affect researchers’ and members’ interpretations of subcultural phenomena. It reveals how and why people use specific conceptual frames or methods and how those shape their interpretations of everyday realities.

This is an unprecedented contribution to the field, explaining the interpretive processes through which people make sense of subcultural phenomena.

J. Patrick Williams is Associate Professor of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University.

Part 1: Approaching Interpretive Practice

1. Making Sense of Subcultures: Interpretive Practice and/in Subcultural Theory - J. Patrick Williams

2. Subculture, Scene, Lifestyle, or Movement? Conceptualizing Straight Edge from Insider and Academic Perspectives - Ross Haenfler

3. Ghosts in the Machine: (Post)subculture and the ‘Problem’ of Contemporary Youth - Andy Bennett and Daniel Bennett

Part 2: Contextualizing Interpretive Practice

4. No More Heroes: Portuguese Punk and the Notion of Subculture in the Global South - Paula Guerra

5. Still Crazy After All Those Years: A Trajectory of Discourses on Youth Subcultures in Korea, from Exclusion to Recognition to Legitimization - Hyunjoon Shin

6. Interpreting Chinese Punk: From Doing Nothing to Hermit Lifestyle - Jian Xiao and Xinxin Dong

7. The Dynamic Meaning of Subculture among DIY Indonesian Musicians - Oki Rahadianto Sutopo

Part 3: Embodying Interpretive Practice

8. “That’s Not Punk!” Authenticity, Older Punk Women, and the ‘Doing’ of Punk Scholarship - Laura Way

9. “Let’s All Be Friends”: Emotional Labor and Insider Research of Punk Subculture - Stanislav Vysotsky and Donna Manion

10. Intimacy, Exchange, and Friendship as Sensitizing Concepts: Interpreting and Teaching Subcultures through Ethnographic Fieldwork - Shane Blackman and Laura Barnett

Part 4: Conclusion

11. Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Interpretive Practice in Subcultural Studies - J. Patrick Williams and Samuel Judah

Erscheinungsdatum	12.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-5292-1861-6 / 1529218616
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-1861-9 / 9781529218619
Zustand	Neuware