Schooling the Smash Street Kids

Corrigan, Paul C.

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“…As a population, young people appear as a 'normativized' group of people that some modern social theories have helped to create defining their characteristics, including the divisions between male and female youth as natural and functional categories. Furthermore, as a consequence, youth is a 'biological life stage' assuming that youth is a necessary universal stage to build complete adults; this is a problematic age stage, which is necessary to control in order to become an adult according to the hegemonic social values in a particular time and space (Corrigan, 1979;Furlong, 2009;Griffin, 2011). Research on living conditions and labour opportunities for young people in Arab Mediterranean countries is a priority for policy-makers involved in establishing transnational cooperation between the two shores of the Mediterranean.…”

Section: Youth Studies As Interdisciplinary Focus On Young People Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Youth Research in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Feixa¹,

Sánchez²,

Laine³

et al. 2016

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Section: Youth Studies As Interdisciplinary Focus On Young People Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contemporary Youth Research in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Feixa¹,

Sánchez²,

Laine³

et al. 2016

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“…In the second half of the 1970s, the British researchers associated with the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (here after CCCS) at University of Birmingham fashioned a series of highly influential works on youth culture phenomenon. Specifically, the works by McRobbie and Garber (1975), Hall and Jefferson (1975), Willis (1990), McRobbie (1978) and Corrigan (1979) were to prove formative for what became the new field of youth sub-cultural studies (Griffin, 2011). All-through these scholarships at CCCS, the psychological canon of the concept of subculture was contested, as Blackman (2005: 5) writes:…”

Section: Concept and Theory Of Youth Culture In 1960s And 1970smentioning

confidence: 99%

From the Chicago School to Post-sub Cultural Carriage: A Review and Analysis of Contemporary Trends in Youth Culture Research

Bhat¹

2016

Journal of Social Sciences

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The historicity of youth culture studies is much challenging to date exactly. Sociologists however, trace its genesis from Chicago School and then leap to Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. Theoretically it was, with the works of post subculturists that youth culture research gained ascendency. Global youth culture posture further revamped the field. This paper constructs a critical dialogue between the wide-ranging theories and research on youth culture and global/local relations in this sphere. It is revealed that the current ascendancy of postsubcultural studies margins the significance of sociological research to broader youth queries and does little to extend the case that youth studies should be more sociologically relevant and important. Youth lives in no island of its own and it is not all young people-who have the possibility of engaging in the consumerism, central to some post-sub-cultures. Conversely, youth and their cultures are framed within and to large extent shaped up by social divisions and inequalities. Against this backdrop, it is suggested that youth culture research would prove fruitful only when clubbed with 'transition approach.' Possibly this refit would not only facilitate to widen and thrive the significance of contemporary youth culture studies, rather may help in theoretical sophistication, empirical renovation and a more holistic sociology of youth.

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“…For the majority of young touts males in LC, Road life is not about rebellion or hedonism, rather it is centred upon meeting up with friends, 'hanging on Road', attending the youth gang, raving, looking 'links' and 'catching joke'. In essence, Road life is about friendships, routine and the familiar (Gunter, 2004;Ikuomola, 2010) or doing nothing (Corrigan, 1979).…”

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Poverty, Road Culture and Deviance among Areaboys in Lagos Central Neighbourhood

Daniel¹

2012

IJPT

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The role and importance of poverty within the youth subculture ('road' life) of young areaboys growing up in Lagos Central Neighbourhood cannot be overemphasised. This research explores how the notion of poverty particularly influences touts attitudes, values, behaviour and lifestyle; the way in which the majority of young touts involved with road life, look to appropriate and flirt with certain aspects of deviance for reasons to do with survival, 'money-making', and aesthetics (style and fashion). This paper is based upon a much larger ethnographic study undertaken in Lagos State transportation corridors (Surulere and Lagos Island Local government areas), it adopts and integrates the concepts of 'drift' (Matza, 1964), 'code of the street' (Anderson, 1999), and the 'seductions of crime' in the analysis and discussion of the findings. Empirical data was gleaned via participant observation supplemented by semi-structured interviews among a cross section of 120 respondents. This study revealed that touts are filling a gap in service along the transportation corridors and the touting vocation is more attractive to migrant-unemployed and unskilled youths. This is more so for individuals with difficult childhood, resulting from familial, psychological and socioeconomic challenges. It is therefore recommended that government and organised private sector should prioritise and intensify skill acquisition programmes; job creation and reformation of neighbourhoods along transportation corridors to reduce the image problems in the heart of Lagos state.

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Schooling the Smash Street Kids

Cited by 303 publications

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Contemporary Youth Research in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Research

Contemporary Youth Research in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Research

From the Chicago School to Post-sub Cultural Carriage: A Review and Analysis of Contemporary Trends in Youth Culture Research

Poverty, Road Culture and Deviance among Areaboys in Lagos Central Neighbourhood

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