This thesis is based on theoretical findings in the area of developmental psychology and focuses on the period of adolescence. The aim of the thesis is the description of specific features of adolescence as a developmental period typically associated with certain types of behaviour and typical language usage, mainly in the area of vocabulary. The thesis aims at linking description of intellectual development with linguistic alasysis to specify norms of communication within the youth subculture. Theoretical claims are verified by data from empirical research in the form of a survey and linguistic analyses of both audio and video recordings and samples of written communication between adolescents. The thesis accentuates the term youth subculture and puts forward that one of its main characteristics is a specific area of vocabulary which helps to strengthen peer relationships.

Abstract The culture of law enforcement is an all or nothing proposition with no gray area where membership into this society is concerned. You are either “on the job” or you are not. Even references among officers to “the job” indicate there is only one job. Likened to a secret handshake, that initial phrase if answered correctly opens the door to instant fraternal acceptance, get out of violation passes, and the many other assumed privileges of brotherhood. Manning (1980) describes the powerful mystification of policing as the “sacred canopy”. He further asserts that “the police role conveys a sense of sacredness or awesome power that lies at the root of political order, and authority, the claims a state makes upon its people for deference to rules, laws and norms” (Manning, 1980, p. 21). These elements make policing unique to all other American occupations. The sacredness of the profession creates social autonomy protected by the officers’ code of silence. Operating in this vacuum apart from public accountability fosters an environment for behavior outside of laws the institution is charged with enforcing. My research shows the process of occupational socialization ushers officers into a state of becoming blue, or the enculturation of expectant behavior and actions. I confirm that assignments into the Special Operations Group (SOG) facilitate a subculture separate and apart from the institutional ideals (Librett, 2006) and encourage a darkening of the shade of blue identifying officers with a labeling of deviance. While previous research identifies the code of silence as a by-product of the policing culture, my research identifies it as fundamental for maintaining the covenant of the dark blue fraternity.

This thesis deals with the thematic definition of subgenres of punk music and their comparison. Theoretical part consists of the definition of the concept of culture and several other selected terms. A subculture will be defined as a theoretical unit, which is followed by a historical basis for the punk subculture itself. In addition, the theoretical part deals with the relationship of punk music to left-wing extremism and outlines the beginnings of punk music in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. The practical part is based on interviews with interpreters, of which three selected interviews are presented. The thesis also defines the subgenres themselves and defines their thematic content. These subgenres are then compared at their thematic level and the themes common to all sub-genres are defined.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2017-10-16T11:15:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alan Ricardo Dal Pizzol_.pdf: 2381946 bytes, checksum: 2f29a6e04f5f1d6b8052775644c0e64a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-16T11:15:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alan Ricardo Dal Pizzol_.pdf: 2381946 bytes, checksum: 2f29a6e04f5f1d6b8052775644c0e64a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-29 / Nenhuma / Esta dissertação propõe-se a buscar a compreensão de como a Subcultura Nerd se atualiza através do consumo de referências culturais. Para isso, elencamos uma narrativa chamada Crônicas de Ghanor (2013), um produto cultural desenvolvido em várias mídias, mas que teve seu início em um jogo de tabuleiro gravado e disponibilizado pelo Grupo Jovem Nerd, a maior empresa nacional voltada a conteúdos Nerds. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, utilizamos a Teoria Fundamentada (FRAGOSO; RECUERO; AMARAL, 2015), para catalogar todas as referências culturais encontradas na construção da narrativa dos Podcasts das Crônicas de Ghanor, ao mesmo tempo que utilizamos o método criado por Gelder e Thornton (1997) para compreendemos como se dá a atualização do Nerd, através da perspectiva da própria subcultura. Para o debate são convidados os autores Bourdieu (1982), Burke (2013) e García Canclini (2008). Sob a ótica do capital cultural e suas trocas simbólicas, criamos uma discussão sobre a hibridização das referências culturais que compõe o produto das Crônicas de Ghanor e de seus consumidores. Como resultados desse processo, dissertamos sobre como a atualidade da subcultura se legitima pela sua própria visão, e entendemos que se trata de uma subcultura em processo. O produto em si não parece ter hibridização, através do entendimento do capital cultural, enquanto a subcultura demonstra que sua formação é híbrida, em processo – e deve refletir em futuros produtos de consumo. / This dissertation proposes to seek the understanding of how the Subculture Nerd is updated through the consumption of cultural references. To do this, we analyze the narrative of Chronicles of Ghanor (2013), a cultural product developed in various medias, but which began in a board game recorded and made available by the Jovem Nerd Group, the largest national company focused on Nerd content. For the development of the research, we used the Grounded Theory (FRAGOSO; RECUERO; AMARAL, 2015) to catalog all the cultural references found in the Chronicles of Ghanor podcasts, while using the method created by Gelder and Thornton (1997), to understand how is updated the Nerd concept, through the perspective of the subculture itself. For the debate are invited the authors Bourdieu (1982), Burke (2013) and García Canclini (2008). From the perspective of cultural capital and its symbolic exchanges, we have created a discussion about the hybridization of the cultural references that makes up of the Chronicles of Ghanor and its consumers. As a result of this process, we have discussed how the current subculture legitimizes itself by its own vision, and we understand that it is a subculture in process. The product itself does not appear to hybridize through the understanding of cultural capital, while the subculture demonstrates that its formation is hybrid, in process – and should reflect in future Nerd products.

Dans nos sociétés occidentales contemporaines, esthétiques et spectaculaires, le corps est un objet de fétichisme social de même qu'un écran sur lequel il est possible de projeter une identité maniable et changeante. Considéré comme le support de l’individualité, il est l'objet de toutes les métamorphoses. De simple parti pris vestimentaire, le style peut parfois se faire l’expression d’un véritable mode de vie, d’une existence qui s'établit à l'encontre des normes imposées par une société. L’apparence devenant la manifestation ostentatoire (parfois caricaturale) d’une prise de position politique, philosophique ou sexuelle.Quels liens unissent la pratique du cabaret New-Burlesque, du Cosplay, de la Sape ou du Voguing ?En apparence dissemblables, voire peut-être antagonistes ; regroupant des membres d'âges, de sexes, d'origines différentes et s'ignorant la plupart du temps l'une l'autre ; ces communautés sous-culturelles partagent néanmoins des symboles, une idéologie, une organisation structurelle et sociale comparables. Dans une forme maîtrisée de l’artifice et du théâtre, tous utilisent leur apparence comme dispositif de résistance et interrogent la validité et les limites des impératifs sociétaux. C'est du moins ce que cette thèse tente de mettre en lumière, par la photographie et sur le terrain de la sociologie. / In our contemporary societies, the body has become not only an object of social fetishism but also a screen where we can take on any kind of identity. Apperance can be transformed in a playground and used as a tool to resist society's standards. From a simple choice of clothing, a look can in fact express a global lifestyle. Even if seemingly light, style can show the choice of a certain way of life and be an exit from social constraints. It can reveal existential choices, whether political, philosophical or sexual.This researches are involving different groups of people and communities. What could possibly link Congolese Sapers, Voguers, Cosplayers, Roller derby and New-Burlesque performers? A priori different, most likely antagonistic and gathering a large range of people from various ages, social classes or origins, these subcultures still share a lot of similarities. From a comparable ideology to the use of similar symbols and compatible social organizations, they all seek to re-enchant our world in a critique of cast societies and question the limits of their social imperatives.In both photography and sociology, this PhD aims at forming a kaleidoscope of various facets of self-presentation in our contemporary society, with all its hopes and disappointments.

This thesis focuses on the skateboarding industry in China as both a youth subculture and a cultural industry. I am investigating the transition between the two and examining how the emerging skateboarding industry operates through detailed analysis of the feelings, motivations and meanings attributed to it by its participants and the emerging strata of cultural workers. In order to achieve this research objective, this thesis has positioned the analysis in a triangle of forces between the development of Chinese skateboarding culture, the emerging skateboarding cultural industry and government interventions. This ethnographic study takes into account distinctive characters in the development of Chinese skateboarding communities that signify continuities inside contemporary Chinese youth cultures. I argue that such continuity is still embedded in the organisation of the Chinese skateboarding industry as a cultural industry, in both subcultural and corporate entrepreneurial practices. Moreover, this thesis contributes to ongoing discussions in the field of not only cultural studies but also of the political economic analysis of cultural/creative industries by examining the dynamic incorporations at play between the commercial and governmental forces at the centre of current debate around the inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympic Games, and the consequences of the sportisation of skateboarding in mainstream economic structures. Last but not least, this research captures the working conditions of the cultural labourers who are at the forefront of shaping and reshaping the Chinese skateboarding industry.

This thesis examines the punk genre's evolution into commercial mainstream music in Spain and Mexico. It looks at how this evolution altered both the aesthetic and gesture of the genre. This evolution can be seen by examining four bands that followed similar musical and commercial trajectories. In Spain, Kaka de Luxe and Radio Futura; in Mexico, Size and Ritmo Peligroso. Since punk music's gesture is both visceral and political, various methods of suppressing or containing the punk gesture arise. For both Spain and Mexico, containing the punk gesture was a matter of government censorship in the early years of punk. By the late 1980s, neoliberalism, global tastes, and capitalist interests controlled the punk gesture more than governmental crackdown. The thesis concludes that while the punk gesture was contained for both political and economic reasons during the 1980s, the resurgence of the punk gesture in the 1990s is evidence of the genre's resilience in a capitalist and hegemonic environment.

My work explores subculture as a form of cultural resistance to the dominant ideology. I'm concerned with the ambiguous relationship we occupy as subjects to the material produced by popular culture, and how this is digested and understood by female viewers and cultural outsiders. The specific temporality of the queer subject is a key theme in my work.

While many adolescents list unstructured "hangout" spaces as central to their social lives and activities, the availability of such spaces has dramatically declined in the last two decades, and attendance at afterschool programs has increased. Concurrently, these programs have drawn new scrutiny: from researchers eager to show their educational value, and from funders and policy makers seeking measureable evidence of that value. Even youth centers that were deliberately designed to give young people a space to "hang out" have been forced to reorganize due to the pressure to demonstrate program results. In this dissertation, through participant-observation, archival documents, and interviews with youth workers and young people, the author investigates and critiques the complex politics of representation in the funding, research, and day-to-day existence of one unstructured youth program, the Youth Action Alliance's offering known simply as Hang Out. Rather than producing a unified picture of Hang Out, the author takes a non-dialectic approach, using poststructuralist and posthuman theory to propose multiple plausible and powerful perspectives, and to explore their productive tensions with one another.

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