• DOI:10.1080/1367626032000068154
Corpus ID: 145295766

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}
}

Robert T. Wood

Published 2003

Sociology

Journal of Youth Studies

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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