Boy Racer Culture - Youth, Masculinity and Deviance

Informationen zum Autor Dr Karen Lumsden is a Lecturer in Sociology at Loughborough University! UK and was formerly a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee. She has a PhD in Sociology! a Masters in Social Research! and a MA (Hons) in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include youth culture! car culture! crime and deviance! gender! moral panics! policing and qualitative research methods. Zusammenfassung Boy Racer Culture sheds light on the internal world of boy racers, including their participation in various rituals such as car modification, subcultural media and events, and the public exhibition of this car culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: rebels of the road 1. Car cultures and deviance 2. Setting the scene: the history of aberdeen’s boy racers 3. Fuelling the panic: societal concern and media images of the boy racer 4. The politics of the road: policing, governing and educating the boy racer 5.'We're not boy racers but they are': The stickiness of labels 6. Rites of the road: 'Modding', subcultural media and public performances 7. Gendered interactions in the boy racer culture 8. Conclusion: contested realities.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Lumsden, Lumsden Karen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9780415813853
• ISBN: 978-0-415-81385-3
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Legal aspects of criminology, Society and culture: general, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminology: legal aspects, Juvenile Criminal Law