MDSC01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dick Hebdige, Henry Mayhew, Participant Observation
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Dick hebdige - the function of subculture 73-79. It is now time to explore the relationship between these spectacular subcultures and those other groups (parents, teachers, police, "respectable" youth etc. ) and cultures (adult working-class and middle-class cultures) against which they are ostensibly defined. What is missing from these accounts is any idea of historical specificity, any explanation of why these particular forms should occur at this particular time. Sociologists: uk - the disintegration of the working-class community. None the less, despite the confident assurances of both labour and conservative politicians that britain was now entering a new age of unlimited affluence and equal opportunity, that we had "never had it so good", class refused to disappear. The ways in which class was lived, however - the forms in which the experience of class found expression in culture did change dramatically.
