Working Class Youth Culture (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032606991 ISBN 13: 9781032606996

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

First published in 1976, Working Class Youth Culture offers a much-needed alternative viewpoint to the law-and-order lobby which treats the youth question as a dreadful pest to be exterminated or caged in. The contributors describe the real conditions of life for working-class youth; how they make sense of the world; and how we can understand their perspective. The subjects discussed include Teddy Boys, Mods, Skinheads and the Glamrock Cult; dance-hall fights; picking up girls and going steady; how schools manufacture delinquency, truancy and vandalism; how working-class kids slide from bad schools to bad jobs, or to no jobs at all; Paki-bashing, racism and the competition over jobs and houses; how social change in post-war Britain has influenced youth culture; and how social scientists have hidden the real character of youth troubles behind the myth of a classless society. This book will be of interest to students of sociology and anthropology.

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About the Author

Geoff Mungham and Geoff Pearson

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032606991
• ISBN 13: 9781032606996
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 173
• Editor: Mungham Geoff, Pearson Geoff