GCST2612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Angela Mcrobbie, Freeter

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Gender and Cultural Studies
• Course: GCST2612
• Professor: Jessica Kean

Document Summary

Institutional and material conditions: schooling, policing, employment, these factors relate and define youth and develop a relationship, experiences can be influenced by the representations of youth society. "important to separate popular public images and stereotypes from lived experience, the range of ideological representations we come across daily from empirical observation and sociological data. But in practice the two sides feed off each other. Situation "conjucture: the political, material, discursive, cultural, institutional circumstances or conditions in a given time/place, yoshitaka (2005): "responses to a whole transformation of society, economy and politics taking place since the late 1970s. " P. 18: connected to broader economic and social circumstances of japan. "the freeters have failed to establish even a political organisation like a trade union, because they are too atomized and fragmented. " p. 22: yoshitaka brings out the material conditions for young people being shaped by it and expressing politics. "freeters are merely seen as easy going young people.