Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-84998-3 (ISBN)
The concept of everyday struggles can enliven our understanding of the lives of young people and how social class is made and remade. This book invokes a Bourdieusian spirit to think about the ways young people are pushed and pulled by the normative demands directed at them from an early age, whilst they reflexively understand that allegedly available incentives for making the ‘right’ choices and working hard – financial and familial security, social status and job satisfaction – are a declining prospect.
In Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles, the figures of those classed as 'hipsters' and 'bogans' are used to analyse how representation works to form a symbolic and moral economy that produces and polices fuzzy class boundaries. Further to this, the practices of young people around DIY cultures are analysed to illustrate struggles to create a satisfying and meaningful existence while negotiating between study, work and creative passions.
By thinking through different modalities of struggles, which revolve around meaning making and identity, creativity and authenticity, 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.
Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, of fields including: Youth Studies, Class and Inequality, Work and Careers, Subcultures, Media and Creative Industries, Social Theory and Bourdieusian Theory.
Steven Threadgold is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
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’
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.05.2016 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Youth, Young Adulthood and Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-84998-7 / 1138849987 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-84998-3 / 9781138849983 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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