Summary
Contents
Subject index
This book takes students on a guided tour of the gang phenomenon through history, as well as current representations of gangs in literature and media. It includes: - A detailed global overview of gang culture, covering, amongst others, Glasgow, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Shanghai - A chapter on researching gangs which covers quantitative and qualitative methods - Extra chapter features such as key terms, chapter overviews, study questions and further reading suggestions. Fraser brings together gang-literature and critical perspectives in a refreshingly new way, exploring ‘gangs’ as a social group with a long and fascinating history.
Conceptualising Gangs
Conceptualising Gangs
Overview
Chapter 4 provides:
- A history of sociological concepts of gangs, with particular focus on key ideas developed in the postwar period.
- A detailed discussion of five key concepts in the study of gangs, drawing on classical studies of gangs in the US and UK.
- A dialogue between classical concepts of gangs and crime and contemporary concerns.
- An overview of emergent sociological analysis of youth, gangs and street culture in a global and comparative context.
Key Terms
- Anomie
- Birmingham School
- Class
- Deviance
- Drift
- Multiple marginality
- Reaction-formation
- Rebellion
- Resistance through ritual
- Social disorganisation
- Strain
- Street capital
- Street culture
- Subculture
- Urban marginality
- Zone of transition
Introduction
In a famous scene from the musical West Side Story (1961) – which retells the story of Shakespeare’s ...
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