1st Edition

Lifestyles and Subcultures History and a New Perspective

By Luigi Berzano, Carlo Genova Copyright 2015
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Lifestyles and subcultures are tools through which people say – to themselves and to others – who they think they are, who they think they are similar to, and who they think they are different from. Lifestyles and subcultures are ways which people adopt to look at their own lives, and to try to keep together different roles, different practices and different realms which they are involved in.... Read more

Introduction  Part 1: The Tradition of Lifestyles Study  1. Lifestyles and Social Position  2. Lifestyles and Thought  3. Lifestyles and Action  4. Beyond Lifestyles  Part 2: The Tradition of Subcultures Study  5. Subcultures and Deviance  6. Subcultures and Resistance  7. Subcultures and Distinction  8. Beyond Subcultures  Part 3: Towards a New Sociology of Lifestyles  9. A New Concept of Lifestyle  10. Analytical Model and Methodology

Biography

Luigi Berzano is Full Professor of the Sociology of Culture at the University of Turin.

Carlo Genova is Assistant Professor of the Sociology of Culture at the University of Turin.