Call for Societies journal Special Issue “Youth Cultures and Subcultures”

Dear colleagues,

I’d like to draw your attention to this Special Issue of the Societies journal “Youth Cultures and Subcultures”. 

http://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/youth_cultures

Societies is an international fully peer-reviewed journal and welcomes contributions using diverse disciplinary perspectives.

Please consider submitting your manuscripts to this Special Issue, and I’d appreciate it if you would also circulate details to others via your own networks.

The text of the call with all details are below and in attachment.

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Many thanks,

Carlo Genova

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Societies — Open Access Journal of Sociology

Special Issue "Youth Cultures and Subcultures"

The study of youth cultures and of youth subcultures has a long and articulated tradition in social sciences. The concepts of “youth cultures” and “subcultures” date back to the mid-1940s, in the wake of the way opened by the Chicago School two decades before—but a lot of studies conducted before the terms were coined had also been dedicated to the analysis of phenomena subsequently identified through these categories. Throughout the long history of this field of study, a huge amount of research has been done on very different phenomena and varying interpretative perspectives have been developed. Nevertheless, “youth cultures” and “subcultures” today continue to represent relevant and useful concepts, and analytical perspectives, in the analysis of several social forms characterized by a significant presence of young people.

The purpose of the Special Issue, “Youth Cultures and Subcultures”, is to reflect on the study of youth cultures and subcultures in today’s society. What different theoretical and methodological approaches can be adopted in this study? How have -the two concepts and the related analytical perspectives changed over time? What are the limitations and potential of each approach? How can these two concepts and the different analytical perspectives be useful in the study of today’s empirical phenomena? What alternative concepts and perspectives could be adopted?

These are only some of the possible questions that this Special Issue aims to address through theoretical, methodological, and empirical articles. We therefore look forward to your submissions covering any of the aforementioned topics.

Special issue and instructions for authors:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/youth_cultures

(Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2019)

Guest Editor: Carlo Genova – [log in to unmask]

Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

The special issue edited by Carlo Genova is now open to receive submissions of full research articles and comprehensive review papers for peer-review and possible publication.  

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Societies — Open Access Journal of Sociology

Societies (ISSN 2075-4698) is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary scholarly open access journal that brings together the social sciences and humanities to enhance our scientific understanding of the social realm, from ancient times to the future. It publishes original research articles, reviews, commentaries, and short notes that are relevant to the study of past, present and emerging societies.

It is published quarterly online by MDPI. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies

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/Societies/ is a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary scholarly open access journal that brings together the social sciences and humanities to enhance our scientific understanding of the social realm, from ancient times to the future, published quarterly online by MDPI, Switzerland. It is covered by Emerging Sources Citation Index (Thomson Reuters) and ERIH Plus (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences) last year, for more indexing information, please see:

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This Special Issue will be fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers, with authors retaining all copyrights) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies (MDPI's journals currently counts about 2.4 million webpage views monthly!).

You may submit your manuscript at any point until the deadline on 15 May 2019. If you intend to submit a paper, the guest editor would appreciate if you could send a preliminary title, short abstract and intended submission date. Please visit the "Instructions for Authors" before submitting a full manuscript:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/instructions

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