1. Consumption And Cultural Identity

It was changes in consumption practises in the eighteenth century that prefigured the industrial revolution, rather than followed such changes as conventional wisdom implies. Similarly, it is changes in consumptive practices that have led to the...

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2. New Approaches To Subcultural Study

  However, subcultures, like social movements, are part of the same process of identity construction through opposition, and should also be viewed as both cultural and political. In post-modern theories of identity construction, identity is...

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3. Social Movements Of Subcultures

Neil Stammers has recently argued that social movements are not only central to the process of social change, but are key to understanding the origin and development of human rights; that social movements, in challenging extant power, generate human...

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4. The Centre Of Contemporary Cultural Studies

Dick Hebdige, a member of the CCCS, subjected Punk specifically, and the subcultural milieu more generally, to a form of historical, neo--Marxist, semiotic analyses inspired by the work of Roland Barthes that typifies the work of the CCCS....

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5. Feminism And Social Capital

Social capital is also heavily influenced by gender, and this too has implications as women are more likely to be promoted to levels where women are already present. This is due in some part to the ‘sex-typing’ of jobs, but is also...

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