The Subcultures Reader

Book Overview

This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful book brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures, from the early work of the Chicago School on 'deviant' social... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415127289
• ISBN13: 9780415127288
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 7.0" x 1.3"

Customer Reviews

A must for contemporary subculturalists

Gelder and Thornton have pulled together a book that I could have based my entire senior thesis upon as the sole source. Most subculture studies anthologies rely too much on the British school of thought. While that was the seminal work in the field, there's been a *few* more developments since the sixties :) Gelder and Thornton realize this, and draw from almost a full century of subculture studies. Each progression in the field is grouped into a new chapter, with a cohesive introduction section. Some chapter will take a serious sociologist to manage full appreciation - the "sociologese" can get thick when individual authors are trying to obscure the fact that their thesis is a "stretch" to put it mildly. But the book on the whole is a great resource for anyone involved in subculture studies - a good range, considerable depth, and reader-friendly organization for those not yet versed in the particulars of the field.