Paul Hodkinson is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK.

Wolfgang Deicke is Tutor in Politics at Ruskin College, Oxford.

1. Youth Cultures: A Critical Summary of Key Debates 2. As Young as You Feel: Youth as Discursive Construct 3. Recent Concepts in Youth Cultural Studies: Critical Reflections From the Sociology of Music 4. 'Insider' and 'Outsider' Issues in Youth Research 5. Rethinking the Subcultural Commodity: Exploring Heavy Metal T-Shirt Culture/s 6. Empowerment or Incorporation? Youth Policy Making and Hip Hop Culture 7. Resistance and Commercialisation in 'Distasteful Movements': Right-wing Politics and Youth Culture in East Germany 8. Gender, Status and Subcultural Capital in Gothic Style 9. Homegirls Remembered: Discourse And Literacy Practices Among U.S. Latina Gang Girls 10. Youth Culture and Ethnicity: Emerging Youth Multiculture in South London 11. Youth Claiming Space: The Case of Pittsburgh's Mr. Roboto Project 12. Hip-Hop's Musicians and Audience in the Local Musical `Milieu' 13. Pin-Up Punks: the Reality of a Virtual Community 14. A 'Bounded Virtuality': ICTs and Youth in Alghero, Sardinia 15. Identity and Structure in Online Gaming: Young People's Symbolic and Virtual Extensions of Self