Youth Cultures and Style. Analytical Approaches: and a Methodological Proposal
Youth Cultures and Style. Analytical Approaches: and a Methodological Proposal

Summary/Abstract: Youth cultures are nowadays one of the main social forms amongyoung people, and at the core of youth cultures is style. Variously defined, styleis made up of all those elements through which each youth culture, and everyindividual involved in it, expresses itself and positions itself with regard to othercultural models, by processes of identification, distinction and recognition. Overtime, different approaches to the analysis of youth cultures have been developed– on the basis partly of the different empirical phenomena which have been takeninto consideration, and partly of the different sensitivities of the scholars – andthus different interpretive perspectives of style have also emerged. The article aimsat reconstructing the core elements of the main approaches to style in the studyof youth cultures – considering definitions, constitutive elements, and interpretivemodels – and then, on these bases, at reflecting about a possible methodologicalpath in the concrete study of today’s youth cultures’ styles.

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