The Religion of the Urban Cool
In these perilous times of welfare reforms deprived youths of a working class background, those identified with the religion of the urban cool, “the get rich quick or die trying” culture, a category often intersecting with that of ethnic minority status, are at the centre of public attention. The ideal of youth work as enhancing the social mobility of these youths seems to loose ground against the new politically correct stance of youth work as contributing to the safety of upstanding citizens and their possessions against these youths. In this article an alternative position is advocated. One... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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École nationale de la protection judiciaire de la jeunesse
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Schlagwörter: | jeunes rebelles / culture de la consommation / religion / hip-hop / Pays-Bas / renegade youths / consumer culture / hip hop / Netherlands / jóvenes renegados / cultura de consumo / religión / Países Bajos |
Sprache: | Französisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27591798 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://sejed.revues.org/6620 |
In these perilous times of welfare reforms deprived youths of a working class background, those identified with the religion of the urban cool, “the get rich quick or die trying” culture, a category often intersecting with that of ethnic minority status, are at the centre of public attention. The ideal of youth work as enhancing the social mobility of these youths seems to loose ground against the new politically correct stance of youth work as contributing to the safety of upstanding citizens and their possessions against these youths. In this article an alternative position is advocated. One in which we recognize these youths and their adherence to the religion of the urban cool as ciphers to decipher the societal-wide structural pathology whereby all ethnicities, classes, and generations, equate success and wellbeing with what and how one consumes. The religion of the urban cool heralds the religion of unbridled consumption. ; En ces temps périlleux de réforme de l’Etat-providence, les jeunes démunis de la classe ouvrière, identifiés à la religion de l’urban cool - la culture du « devenir riche rapidement ou mourir en essayant » - et qui se conjugue souvent avec l’appartenance à une minorité ethnique, sont au centre de l’attention générale. L’idéal de l’intervention sociale visant à promouvoir la mobilité sociale de ces jeunes semble perdre pied face à la nouvelle attitude politique ambiante qui cherche à préserver la sécurité des citoyens intègres et de leurs biens vis-à-vis de ces jeunes. Cet article défend une position alternative qui reconnaît l’appartenance de ces jeunes à la religion de l’urban cool comme un des outils de lecture de la pathologie sociale structurelle selon laquelle toutes les ethnies, les classes et les générations lient le succès et le bien-être à la consommation. La religion de l’urban cool annonce la religion de la consommation effrénée. ; En esta época peligrosa en que las reformas al bienestar han quitado a los jóvenes la posibilidad de pertenecer a la clase trabajadora, los que se ...