Steven Threadgold

Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles, Threadgold brings Bourdieu's sociological practice together with theories of affect, emotion, morals and values to broaden our understanding of how young people make choices, adapt, strategise, succeed, fail and make do.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317532866
• Artikelnr.: 49268446

Autorenporträt

Steven Threadgold is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Youth studies and theoretical foundations
A mix tape for Part 1
1. Youth, class and everyday struggles
Introduction
Youth
Class
Bourdieu's 'struggles'
Chapter outline
2. Sociological practice: Towards a Bourdieusian understanding
Introduction: Bourdieu's thinking tools
Bourdieu's conception of class
Struggle, illusio and social gravity
Social games and strategy
Habitus and field
Capitals
Trajectory
Doxa and misrecognition
Symbolic violence
Cultural arbitrary
Distinction
Conclusion
3. Bourdieusian prospects and theory in youth studies
Introduction
Reflexivity and inequality
The symbolic, the moral and 'value'
Affect and emotion
Conclusion
Part 2: Classification struggles in the field of representation
A mix tape for Part 2
4. Hipsters and bogans: Distinctive figures of classed anxieties
Introduction
Hipsters and bogans in the news
Slippery categories
What is a bogan? What is a hipster?
Hipsters and bogans as 'figures'
Classification struggles in the field of representation
Conclusion
5. Hipsters and bogans in the news media and comedy: Two case studies
Introduction
Case study 1
Case study 2
The affective economy of hipsters and bogans
Conclusion: Global hipsters and local bogans
Part 3: DIY cultures: Struggles about creativity, identity and meaningful
work
A mix tape for Part 3
6. A DIY scene: Cultural struggles and meaning making
Introduction
'DIY': From punk to sociology to co-optation and beyond
Everyday struggles in a DIY music scene in Australia
Conclusion
7. A DIY career? Labour and creativity struggles
Introduction
Class, labour and creativity
DIY cultures to DIY careers
Subcultural capital and illusio
Choice, struggle and making do: Strategic poverty?
Conclusion
8. Coda: Hipsters, bogans and class in the DIY scene
9. Conclusion
Introduction
Modalities of everyday struggle
Bourdieu, affect and reflexivity
Youth, modalities of struggle and the 'future'