An examination of youth culture studies teenage social groups in suburban Los Angeles who are on the fringes of the mainstream. Wooden uses qualitative research strategies to find out how basically good kids move from being renegades to outlaws. Accordingly, the book investigates everything from the harmless life of the mall rat to the volatile and dangerous world of tagger crews, skinheads, and culture in he California Youth Authority. The author quotes from the popular media to highlight his points and make conceptual material relevant for students.
- ISBN10 0534240127
- ISBN13 9780534240127
- Publish Date 21 July 1994
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 December 2013
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English