Just another brick in the wall. British studies of working-class youth cultures The social ecology of the British working-class

2013 ◽  
pp. 66-90
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Youth Cultures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Youth

scholarly journals Resistance through realism: Youth subculture films in 1970s (and 1980s) Britain

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Working Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Youth Subculture ◽  
Youth Subcultures ◽  
The University ◽  
Class Youth ◽  
Made In

Film scholars have argued that the British social realist films of the late 1950s and early 1960s reflect the concerns articulated by British cultural studies during the same period. This article looks at how the social realist films of the 1970s and early 1980s similarly reflect the concerns of British cultural studies scholarship produced by the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies during the 1970s. It argues that the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ approach to stylised working-class youth subcultures is echoed in the portrayal of youth subcultures in the social realist films Pressure (1976), Bloody Kids (1979), Babylon (1980) and Made in Britain (1982). This article explores the ways in which these films show us both the strengths and weaknesses of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies’ work on subcultures.

Attempting to transgress neoliberal value: Constructing a micro-foundation of social values of working-class youth in vocational schools in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1050-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benny C. Lu ◽  
Anita Koo ◽  
Ngai Pun
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Vocational Schools ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Exchange Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Youth

In contrast to the existing argument that the logic of capital has monetised almost every aspect of human relationships to the realm of exchange value, this article explores the social values that are practised by Chinese working-class youth as an alternative form of agency and everyday practice. Instead of understanding social values as a realm of value operating entirely outside the logic of exchange value, this article takes social values as the constitutive other of exchange value embodied in the neoliberalised form of capitalism. It attempts to develop a micro-foundation of social values or a social mechanism of values for understanding social protection and class solidarity. Employing in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations in vocational schools in China, at sites for the education and nurture of working-class youth, we ask what social values are, how they are perceived and exercised, and by whom. From students’ practices of care in schools, cooperation in the workplace and solidarity in the community, our goal is to build a micro-foundation of social values that challenges and goes beyond the logic of exchange value.

This Is Your Future

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Reform ◽  
Working Class ◽  
National Security ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Youth Of Color ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Youth

The third chapter details the social and historical contexts of Milton High School that gave rise to its Homeland Security program. Based on Milton’s earlier school reform efforts aimed at preparing poor and working class youth of color for the technical workforce, the school eventually narrowed its focus to issues of, and jobs related to, national security.

scholarly journals The readiness assessment regarding labor migration of the new working-class youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Gavrilyuk ◽  
Vladislav Yu. Bocharov
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Readiness Assessment ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Readiness Level ◽  
Social Type ◽  
Class Youth

The article is devoted to the study of labor mobility and the possibility of using systematic sociological data so as to gauge the readiness for labor migration of the working youth. The purpose of this work is to construct a methodology (logical index) and assess the readiness level of labor migration of the new working-class youth of the Ural Federal District (UFD). The study object is working youth (15-29 years old), employed in the sphere of industry and in the field of services. Based on the cluster analysis of data from a mass questionnaire survey (which was conducted in the Ural Federal District in 2018), the gender, the industry and territorial specifics of the readiness level concerning labor migration of three social types of the working youth the earning ones, the surviving ones and the adapted ones, have been analysed. According to the results of the study, it is definite that the most quantified readiness regarding labor migration is among the rural youth of the social type the surviving ones, among young women of the social type the earning ones, as well as among the working youth employed in the service sector (regardless of their social type). The results can be used by public authorities in order to to gauge the readiness level of labor migration in the particular region and to develop regional targeted programs concerning the effective use of labor resources.

Ambivalent Relationships: London's Youth Culture and the Making of the Multi-Racial Society in the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Fuhg
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
White Working Class ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Class Youth

The emergence and formation of British working-class youth cultures in the 1960s were characterized by an ambivalent relationship between British identity, global culture and the formation of a multicultural society in the post-war decades. While national and local newspapers mostly reported on racial tensions and racially-motivated violence, culminating in the Notting Hill riots of 1958, the relationship between London's white working-class youth and teenagers with migration backgrounds was also shaped by a reciprocal, direct and indirect, personal and cultural exchange based on social interaction and local conditions. Starting from the Notting Hill Riots 1958, the article reconstructs places and cultural spheres of interaction between white working-class youth and teenagers from Caribbean communities in London in the 1960s. Following debates and discussions on race relations and the participation of black youth in the social life of London in the 1960s, the article shows that British working-class youth culture was affected in various ways by the processes of migration. By dealing with the multicultural dimension of the post-war metropolis, white working-class teenagers negotiated socio-economic as well as political changes, contributing in the process to an emergent, new image of post-imperial Britain.

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