Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls Deviance and Youth Subcultures

Name: Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls Deviance and Youth Subcultures
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ISBN: 9780199924837

ISBN-10: 019992483X

ISBN-13: 9780199924837

Edition: 2nd 2013

Authors: Ross Haenfler

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Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls offers a concise and engaging introduction to deviance and subculture studies. Each chapter examines a contemporary youth subculture while exploring theoretical concepts. Skinhead, punk rock/hardcore/straight edge, hip hop, heavy metal, virginity pledgers, Goths, gamers and hackers, fic writers, and riot grrls illuminate sociological concepts with examples relevant to contemporary students. The book addresses topics such as symbolic interactionist theory, status hierarchy, the role of style and politics in music scenes, enacting race and gender, moral panics, positive deviance, social stigma, the components of a virtual subculture, and more. Each chapter points…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682



Preface



Introduction



Skinheads-The Symbolism of Style and Ritual



Punk Rock, Hardcore, and Straight Edge-Status and Hierarchy in Subcultures



Hip Hop-"Doing" Gender and Race in Subcultures



Heavy Metal-Moral Panics, Satanic Scares, and Moral Entrepreneurs



Virginity Pledgers-Religion, Sexual Identity, and Positive Deviance



Goth-Stigma and Stigma Management



Gamers, Hackers, and Facebook-Computer Cultures, Virtual Community, and Postmodern Identity



Riot Grrrls and Fic Writers-Girls Take on the Media



Questions and Conclusions-Resistance, Commodification, and Growing up


References


Notes


Index