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Shared interests, territorial control, and criminal activities
- Gang culture refers to the formation of groups characterised by a common identity, often based on shared interests, territorial control, and criminal activities.
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Jan 23, 2024 · Toward improving the theoretical, analytical, and methodological precision of ongoing gang scholarship, the chapter contends that researchers have historically adopted three primary conceptualizations of gang culture: (1) culture-as-values, (2) culture-as-toolkit, and (3) culture-as-products.
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This introduction aims to understanding and exploring gang culture in the United Kingdom and provide you with an overview of what gang culture entails, including its history, formation, structure, and activities, while highlighting its evolution in the UK context.
Jul 1, 2019 · Explained by: social and normative judgements, laws, evidence of what is best for society, biological/evolutionary needs (e.g., cohesion, human need for safety). This 3-analysis approach is useful in overcoming the problem of deciding where to draw a concept's definitional boundaries for explanation.
- Daniel Wegerhoff, Louise Dixon, Tony Ward, Tony Ward
- 2019
Jan 23, 2024 · The volume is divided into six cohesive sections that reflect the diverse field of gang studies and capture the large-scale cultural, economic, political, and social changes occurring within the world of gangs in the last century while also anticipating immense changes on the horizon.
Aug 4, 2016 · Drawing on an alternative methodology we call a ‘global exchange’, this article suggests three concepts—homologies of habitus, vectors of difference and transnational reflexivity—that seek to re-engage the sociological imagination in the study of gangs and globalization.
Over the decades of gang research in America and Europe, sociologists and anthropologists have come to agree on cultural elements in theories of gang formation: American and European youth gangs are derivative of cultural clashes, which engender racism and fundamental antagonistic changes in cultural systems’ economic production and social ...
