Original scientific paper

The Investigation of Youth Subcultures

Slobodan Drakulić ; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb

Abstract

The author gives an account of different youth cultures and the need for their investigation. The culture of one society understood as a way of life can always be investigated only as partially approved by all the strata of society. Because of that, the author stresses that different subcultures appear which differentiate between themselves according to the level of their vitality, innovation or according to the level of imitation of the »main« culture.
Stressing the necessary marginality of the subcultures the author puts an emphasis on the necessity of research into youth subcultures and their importance in sociological research. In investigating youth subcultures a sociologist can apply many of the techniques of qualitative methodology which does not mean that he has to put aside the quantitative approach.

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Hrčak ID:

155805

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155805

Publication date:

31.12.1984.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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