Mike Brake suggests that subcultures develop in response to social problems which a group experiences collectively, and shows how individuals draw on collective identities to ...

First published in 1980, this book argues that subcultures are formed in defence of collectively experienced problems that arise from defects and contradictions in social ...

Since its emergence in the seventeenth century, science fiction has been a sustained, coherent and subversive check on the promises and pitfalls of science. In their turn ...

This collection looks in detail at the wide range of youth subcultures from teds and skinheads to black rastafarians.

Collection of related readings on contemporary social problems in the UK - covers student drug abuse, middle class juvenile delinquency, sociological aspects of sexual ...