Social and Subcultural Capital Among Teenagers in Northern Ireland

This article makes a case for the inclusion of subcultural capital as an indictor of social capital networks in the lives of teenagers. It does so by critiquing approaches that assume that adult measures of social capital can be nonproblematically extended to account for stocks of social capital hel...

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Published in:Youth & society 2008-12, Vol.40 (2), p.224-244
Main Author: Leonard, Madeleine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Cultural Capital
Foreign Countries
Guidelines
Human capital
Mass Media Role
Northern Ireland
Polls & surveys
Social Capital
Social Networks
Subcultures
Surveys
Teenagers
Youth
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Summary:This article makes a case for the inclusion of subcultural capital as an indictor of social capital networks in the lives of teenagers. It does so by critiquing approaches that assume that adult measures of social capital can be nonproblematically extended to account for stocks of social capital held by younger generations. To illustrate the fallacy of this approach, this article draws on data from the 2003 Northern Ireland Young Life and Times Survey (NIYLTS) and the indicators used to explore the relevance of social capital in the lives of teenagers. By ignoring concepts such as subcultural capital, surveys such as the NILYTS provide partial frameworks for understanding the complexities of young people's links to social capital networks and their inclusive and exclusive effects.
ISSN:0044-118X
1552-8499
DOI:10.1177/0044118X08314243