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. Lifestyles and subcultures are lenses through which we, as observers, analyze society, and orientate ourselves within it, looking for similarities and differences among individuals and collectivities which allow us to understand their thoughts and their actions.
This book presents the main analytical approaches through which lifestyles and subcultures have been studied, and also proposes a new interpretative perspective. Today a growing panorama of social phenomena and processes possess intermediate characteristics with regard to those which in the past were identified either as lifestyles or as subcultures. The hypothesis is that consequently these phenomena could be explained and interpreted by means of an analytical framework developed by the intersection of these two perspectives, and the last part of the book is therefore devoted to the presentation of this innovative framework. This book provides new lenses and a fresh view to try to both grasp and understand a constantly-changing reality.
Author(s): Luigi Berzano, Carlo Genova
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 232
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Introduction
Part 1. The tradition of lifestyles study
Chapter 1. Lifestyles and social position
1. Emulation
2. Social classes and status groups
3. Individualization, identification and differentiation
4. Field, habitus and social practices
5. Sensitive elements
Chapter 2. Lifestyles and thought
1. Personality
2. Values
3. Attitudes, interests and opinions
4. Profiles and trends
5. Sensitive elements
Chapter 3. Lifestyles and action
1. Consumption
2. Daily life
3. Actions
4. Sensitive elements
Chapter 4. Beyond lifestyles
1. Genre of life
2. Way of life
3. Sensitive elements
Part 2. The tradition of subcultures study
Chapter 5. Subcultures and deviance
1. Disorganization and delinquency
2. Natural areas
3. Roots of otherness
4. Questions of definition
5. Style and perspectives
6. Sensitive elements
Chapter 6. Subcultures and resistance
1. Culture, class cultures, subcultures
2. Interpretation
3. Style
4. Dominant culture
5. Sensitive elements
Chapter 7. Subcultures and distinction
1. Beyond separation and resistance
2. New definitions
3. The outside world
4. Forms of involvement
5. New style
6. Sense
7. Sensitive elements
Chapter 8. Beyond subcultures
1. Idioculture
2. Tribe
3. Scene
4. Other proposals
5. Sensitive elements
Part 3. Towards a new sociology of lifestyles
Chapter 9. A new concept of lifestyle
1. Social form
2. Practices
3. Sense and meaning
4. Model
5. Distinctivity
6. Collectivity
7. Generative elements
Chapter 10. Analytical model and methodology
1. Composition
2. Generation, reproduction and diffusion
3. Interpretation
4. Cognitive-axiological and socio-structural elements
5. Modalities and intensity of involvement
6. External relations
7. Research path
