Doctoral Dissertation Research: Adult Consequences of Participation in Youth Subculture

University Of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas NV

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Abstract

NSF Sociology Program Fall 2001 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award Competition Abstract SES-0202129 Barbara Brents and Pete Simi University of Nevada at Las Vegas DDR: Adult Consequences of Participation in Youth Subculture This dissertation research will investigate the life histories of early participants in the Los Angeles white supremacist subculture. The results will supplement our knowledge of how early social movement participation affects later politics and life outcomes. Past studies of the long term consequences of social movement participation have focused almost exclusively on liberal and leftist social movements. This study will investigate similar consequences but for a white supremacist movement. Political, occupational, marital, and criminal outcomes will be investigated in follow-up in-depth interviews with at least 25 men who were members of such white supremacists movements as youths prior to 1990.