Working Class Youth Culture

Geoff Mungham, Geoff Pearson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781032606972
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003827085
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Demografía

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Dedication
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Contributors
• Introduction: Troubled youth, troubling world
• 1 Youth and Class: The career of a confusion
• 2 Boys will Be Men: Brief adolescence in a down-town neighbourhood
• 3 ‘Paki-Bashing’ in a North East Lancashire Cotton Town: A case study and its history
• 4 Youth in Pursuit of Itself
• 5 Beyond the Skinheads: Comments on the emergence and significance of the Glamrock Cult
• 6 When Pupils and Teachers Refuse a Truce: The secondary school and the creation of delinquency
• 7 Working Class Youth Cultures
• Bibliography