ABSTRACT
A significant feature of Gary's comments is the way this plurality of cultural forms is connected to his experiences of ethnically fashioned networks, not simply as a continuation or refusal of a parent culture', nor allowing one to conclude that ethnic minoritisation equals one form of cultural formation. From the early years of sub cultural theory, subcultures were recognised as relatively short-lived, dynamic, bottom-up formations, tied to generational as well as sociohistorical change, not stable and ongoing categories of youth markets. Clarke emphasises the openness of sub cultural style: dynamic processes of stylistic appropriation, contradiction, spontaneous' redefinition, the complex relation to fashion logics, diffusion and defusion. Assemblage is a useful concept, but its focus is still at a broader level of the entity: its subculture or ethnicity. Pedagogy' has become a key figure in sociocultural theory, but it has largely functioned in a rhetorical sense.
