Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Youth Subculture of RPG Community: On the Problem of Methodological Description

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Youth Subculture of RPG Community: On the Problem of Methodological Description

Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (6)
Authors: Kopytin, Sergei M.
Contact information: Kopytin, Sergei M.:Khabarovsk Regional Children’s Library named after N.D. Navolochkin 25 Leningradskaia Str., Khabarovsk, 680013, Russia;
Keywords: youth subculture; role-playing games (RPG); methodology; subculture practices; subculture identity
Abstract: The paper offers an analysis of traditional and contemporary methodological approaches to studying of youth subcultures. The author looks into structural, functional, deviant, hermeneutic, semiotic, sociological aspects; determines their drawbacks in the modern science; makes a conclusion based on the structural, semiotic, phenomenological research of role-playing communities. Such methodology allows describing the interrelations of characteristic structural, semiotic, aesthetic and phenomenological traits of the studied subculture; revealing the connection between structural and semiotic signs of socio-cultural forms of youth subculture on the one hand and subculture identity, the latter defining the meaning and pragmatics of subculture practice
Pages: 1480-1489
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/20352