| Description |
1 online resource (188 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on the text; Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1 Youth culture: a case study; Aim of the study; The school and its locality; Research methods; The four groups; Making contact; Part II: Male Youth Culture in an Inner-City School; 2 The competitors; Disposed to practice; The footballers; The Greeks; The three friends; The handballers; The groups' approaches to formal education; 3 Australians too; Part of a team; Cracking the code; Which code?; Fighting for Australia; 4 The way men act; Just friends; Fear and loathing |
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Men among womenA man among men; Growing up; 5 Winners and losers; Leaving school; Work; Unemployment; Broad horizons and blinkered attitudes; Part III: Conclusion; 6 Youth culture, education and social policy; Research, policy and practice; Communication; Expanding options; Appendix: Researchers and subjects; Lexicon of cultural terms; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Louts and Legends is a detailed depiction of four groups of young men in their last years of school and beyond, recording their ways of life, their responses to school and teachers, and their experience of job-seeking, employment, unemployment, further education and training |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781742696706 |
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1742696708 |
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