Conference:
ECER 2010
Format:
Paper
Session Information
SES D 07, Paper Session
Paper Session
Time:
2010-08-23
15:10-16:40
Room:
Sali 212 (NW 21), Aurora
Chair:
Meinert Arnd Meyer
Contribution
This paper focuses on one of the topic of social pedagogy - identity of youth. In the framework of culturally changing world I inquire process of finding identity in subcultures. The research question is: How young people construct their identity in subcultures?
The research is aimed on youth from two subcultures: skinheads and punks. Both subcultures originated in Great Britain in 70´s and early spread all over the world.
The goal of the study is to describe main factors influencing construction of self of young people in subcultures. I also reflect changing technology, productive arrangements and multicultural change (which arised in the Czech republic 20 years ago) and the way how young people think about these changes and confront them with ideology of subcultures. These cultural conditions are similar to most of the European countries.
Research is based on subculture theory developed by Chicago school and Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and The social construction of reality by Berger and Luckmann. Methodolological framework includes qualitative research strategy.
Method
I chose qualitative research strategy based on work by Strauss and Corbin, Silverman, Maxwell, Denzin and Lincoln, Flick and so on.
The research includes narrative perspective. Chosen method is life story, which describes authobiographical story in the person´s own words. Presented part of research consists of two life stories, first one is life story of a member of skinheads subculture and second one is life story of a member of punks subcultures. Both interviews were recorded and transcribed.
Open coding was used o analyze data. Open coding is the analytic process by which concepts are identified and developed in terms of their properties and dimensions (Flick, 2006).
Expected Outcomes
There are many interesting findings. I will mention constructing subculture identity as recurrent process influenced by factors of social milieu and subjective interpretation of these factors.
I compare data from both life stories (member of skinheads and punks subculture) and find common influences.
Findings are structured from microsocial to macrosocial frame, from milieu of family and friends to mileu of mentioned cultural change.
References
Berger, Peter, Luckmann, Thomas. The social construction of reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge. Fagbokforl., 2000. Flick, Uwe. An Introduction to qualitative research. Sage: 2006. Gelder, Ken. The subcultures reader. Routledge, 2005. Hall, Stuart. Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain. Routldege, 1993. Strauss, Anselm, Corbin, Juliet. Basics of qualitative research: techniques and procedures for developing Grounded Theory. Sage, 1998.
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