The Skinheads: An English Working Class Sub-culture.

Brake, Mike

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Publication Date: 1974

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The Skinheads: An English Working Class Sub-culture

Brake, Mike

Youth and Society, 6, 2, 179-200, Dec 74

A description of the emergence in England in early 1968 of the "skinheads" a traditional working class delinquent sub-culture, focusing on their life style, key values, and predilection toward violence, ethnocentrism, a Puritan work ethic, and racism. (EH)

Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Cultural Influences, Lower Class, Social Discrimination, Social Environment, Social Influences, Social Values, Subcultures, Youth, Youth Problems

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