Publication details
Mainstreamová kultura mládeže
| Title in English | Mainstream Youth Culture |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | club cultures; dominant culture; mainstream; popular culture; mainstream youth |
| Description | Despite the widespread use of the term mainstream, it is not easy to qualify it in empirical terms. Based on cultural studies, this article develops a concept of mainstream youth culture through mapping relations between mainstream and youth culture, found in analyses of classical works on subcultures (CCCS) and clubcultures (MIPS). There is a gulf between the structural perspective conceptualizing youth as subcultures opposed to the mainstream dominant /middle class/ adult culture, and the cultural perspective seeing youth as clubculture formations to distinguish them from the mainstream pop culture. The article introduces a theoretical frame of a concept of mainstream youth culture through conjoining both structural and cultural perceptions. From this perspective the mainstream can no longer be seen as unified or monolithically Other. A concept of mainstream youth culture means a space where practices of social and cultural differentiation unfold. |
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