The Straightedge Youth Sub-Culture: Observations on the Complexity of Sub-Cultural Identity
@article{Wood2003TheSY, title={The Straightedge Youth Sub-Culture: Observations on the Complexity of Sub-Cultural Identity}, author={Robert T. Wood}, journal={Journal of Youth Studies}, year={2003}, volume={6}, pages={33 - 52} }
Through a disproportionate focus on the common norms, values, and beliefs that apparently bind sub-cultures together over time and space, past sub-cultures researchers often problematically imply that the members of a given sub-culture form and maintain a roughly similar sub-cultural identity in roughly the same way. In reaction to such implications of identity homogeneity, this article explores the complexity of sub-cultural identity through a case study of the contemporary straightedge youth… CONTINUE READING
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