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Empowering communities or delinquent congregations? A study of complexity and contradiction in Canadian youth cultures and leisure spaces (Ontario).

机译：赋予社区权力或违法的会众？对加拿大青年文化和休闲空间中的复杂性和矛盾进行的研究（安大略省）。

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This dissertation is a theoretical and empirical examination of youth culture in Canada. Theoretically, a continuum of youth-related cultural theories was devised, and a framework that integrated critical interactionism, structuralism, and postmodern theory was adopted. Empirically, the need for more qualitative research on youth culture in Canada was identified and subsequently engaged through the presentation of two ethnographic case studies that were undertaken on this topic. The first case was a study of the rave subculture in Toronto---a "middle class" culture of youth renowned for drug-use, an interest in computer-generated music, and attendance at all-night "rave" dance parties. The second case was a study of youth in an urban recreation/drop-in centre in a low-income area in southern Ontario. These groups were chosen because of their similar and distinct positionings in relation to social class, strategies of resistance, a (relatively) postmodern context, and urban social spaces. Key components of the rave study included: (a) findings that "rave" was defined by its wide range of forms and characteristics---a range that existed simultaneously across the subculture (e.g., in various raver sub-communities), across the careers of individual ravers (e.g., a loss of idealism about rave's potential as a resistant culture), and across the "life" of the Canadian rave scene (e.g., the scene's evolution); (b) the development of "five theses on resistance" as a framework for understanding the multiple, often contradictory positionings of raver youth; and (c) the adoption of Best and Luckenbill's (1994) model of organizational sophistication as means to conceptualize the "local and global" culture. The youth centre study included findings that: (a) despite a broader context of "risk" outside the centre, youth maintained an informal culture of nonviolence by creating "tolerance rules" that allowed diverse groups to coexist; (b) the youth-driven informal culture of the centre allowed youth to maintain a sense of power in an organization otherwise dominated (administratively) by adults; (c) experiences within the centre, while generally positive, were varied and extremely gendered, with female youth being marginalized in the informal, male-dominated sport culture; (d) among female youth, there existed simultaneously a resistance to broader gender/class based limitations on sport participation, and a reproduction of informal power structures. The dissertation concluded with a discussion of the demonstrated importance/implications of being attentive to complexity in the study of youth culture in Canada.
机译：本文是对加拿大青年文化的理论和实证研究。从理论上讲，设计了一系列与青年有关的文化理论，并采用了将批判互动主义，结构主义和后现代理论相结合的框架。根据经验，确定了对加拿大青年文化进行更多定性研究的必要性，随后通过介绍有关该主题的两个人种学案例研究进行了介绍。第一个案例是对多伦多狂欢文化的研究-一种以毒品使用而闻名的“中产阶级”青年文化，他们对计算机生成的音乐产生兴趣，并参加通宵的“狂欢”舞会。第二个案例是对安大略省南部一个低收入地区的城市娱乐/休闲中心的青年进行的研究。之所以选择这些群体，是因为它们在社会阶级，抵抗策略，（相对）后现代语境和城市社会空间方面的定位相似且截然不同。狂欢研究的关键组成部分包括：（a）“狂欢”的定义是由其广泛的形式和特征所决定的，该形式和特征在整个亚文化中同时存在（例如，在各个狂欢者社区中）。个人狂欢者的职业（例如，失去对狂欢者作为抗拒文化的潜力的理想主义）以及加拿大狂欢场景的“生命”（例如场景的演变）； （b）发展“关于抵抗的五个论点”，作为理解红魔青年的多重，经常矛盾的立场的框架； （c）采用Best和Luckenbill（1994）的组织成熟度模型作为概念化“本地和全球”文化的手段。青年中心的研究包括以下发现：（a）尽管中心外的“风险”背景更为广泛，但青年通过创建允许不同群体共存的“宽容规则”，保持了非正式的非暴力文化； （b）该中心以青年为主导的非正式文化使青年能够在一个由成年人（在行政上）主导的组织中保持权力意识； （c）中心内的经验虽然总体上是积极的，但是却是多样的，而且性别极端，在非正式的，男性主导的体育文化中，女性青年被边缘化； （d）在女青年中，同时存在着对广泛的基于性别/阶级的运动参与限制的抵抗，以及对非正式权力结构的再现。论文最后讨论了在加拿大青年文化研究中注意复杂性的重要性/暗示性。

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