摘要：Both cultural studies and sociology are concerned with human (individual or group)
activity. Many scholars in cultural studies have jumped the sociological ship, because sociology
is unable to offer agentic accounts of social activity. Conversely, sociologists might find
writings cultural studies, such as Hebdige’s (1979) Subculture: The Meaning of Style,
unsatisfying because they generally do not include social structural analysis. Further, while
sociology differentiates between types of activity (action versus agency), cultural studies focuses
on what people do, regardless of its social structural underpinnings. Hebdige, although he
alludes often to Marx, fails to offer an adequate account of the structure of subcultural action.
Given its lack of lack of social structural explanation, Subculture fails to explain why the groups
engage in the behavior they undertake.
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