Youth Subcultures

University of Thessaly

Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology

Academic year 2011-1012

Winter semester

Course: Youth Subcultures

a.Summary

This  course is structured around two main axes:

    1.Introduction to the concept of youth subculture. Theories having been developed since 1950s up to nowdays will be dealt with:

Ø      Center for Cultural Studies in Birmingham, uk

Ø      New wave, USA

Ø      New             approaches

Ø      Feminism

     Main points of teaching are:

Ø      Beatniks

Ø      Hippies

Ø      Mods

Ø      Punk

Ø      Hip-hop

Ø      Hooligans

Ø      Girls’Subcultures

Ø      Hegemony and Style

      2.Each student presents two(2) articles in the class and writes  a paper for the final assessment as well.

b.suggested readings

1.      Hall, Stuart and Tony Jefferson (eds) 1998 [1975]. Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain. London, UK: Routledge.

2.       Hebdige, Dick 1979. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London, UK: Routledge

3. J. Patrick Williams, ‘Youth-Subculture Studies: Sociological Traditions and Core Concepts’, Sociology Compass 1 (2007): 572–93, 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.000043.x