All Neo-Marxist Youth Culture Studies

Question 1

Who did Jefferson study?

Answer 1

Teddy Boys

Question 2

What were Teddy Boys doing by buying Edwardian-style clothing?

Answer 2

Buying status

Question 3

Why did the Teddy Boys buy status?

Answer 3

To resist the status they were losing

Question 4

Why were the Teddy Boys losing status in terms of within their communities?

Answer 4

Their communities were being destroyed

Question 5

Who were the Teddy Boys violent towards?

Answer 5

The Windrush Generation

Question 6

Why were the Teddy Boys violent towards The Windrush Generation?

Answer 6

They felt they were destroying their working class communities

Question 7

Who did Brake study?

Answer 7

The Hippies

Question 8

What concept did Brake create for the Hippies?

Answer 8

Magical solutions

Question 9

What were magical solutions?

Answer 9

An unrealistic way to solve the problems of the Hippies

Question 10

What were the Hippies resisting?

Answer 10

Capitalism

Question 11

How did The Hippies resist capitalism?

Answer 11

They lived off student grants

Question 12

What was the social class of most Hippies?

Answer 12

Middle class

Question 13

Which war did the Hippies oppose?

Answer 13

Vietnam War

Question 14

How did Hippies do their hair and clothing?

Answer 14

Had long hair, wore long clothes

Question 15

Why did the Hippies make this their style?

Answer 15

To further oppose the Vietnam war

Question 16

Who studied the Late Skinheads?

Answer 16

Cohen and Clarke

Question 17

What boots and clothing did the Late Skinheads wear?

Answer 17

Factory boots and overalls

Question 18

Who’s style were the Late Skinheads replicating?

Answer 18

The style of their grandads

Question 19

What jobs did the Late Skinheads’ grandads have?

Answer 19

They worked in factories

Question 20

Why did the Late Skinheads dress in this way?

Answer 20

To try and preserve their position in society

Question 21

How did Late Skinheads act towards immigrants?

Answer 21

They were violent towards them

Question 22

Why were the Late Skinheads violent to immigrants?

Answer 22

They believed they were taking away their jobs

Question 23

Who studied Punks?

Answer 23

Hebdige

Question 24

What was bricolage?

Answer 24

The DIY culture Punks adopted

Question 25

What were Punks resisting?

Answer 25

Capitalism

Question 26

How did Punks resist capitalism in terms of clothing?

Answer 26

They did not buy clothes from big businesses

Question 27

What did Punks use to make their nose piercings and dresses?

Answer 27

Used safety pins for nose piercings, bin-liners for dresses

Question 28

Who did Willis study?

Answer 28

The lads

Question 29

What was the social class of the lads?

Answer 29

Working class

Question 30

What did the lads do in school?

Answer 30

They misbehaved

Question 31

What did Willis say was the reason for the lads deviant behaviour in school?

Answer 31

It was to prepare for the mundane life of working in a factory

Question 32

What did Willis say about the actions of the lads in relation to capitalism?

Answer 32

Their actions on a daily basis made them not pose a threat to capitalism

Question 33

What form of subculture did the lads create?

Answer 33

Anti-school subculture

Question 34

Who were the lads' role models?

Answer 34

Their fathers

Question 35

Which Neo-Marxist said black male youth cultures are formed to resist racism?

Answer 35

Gilroy

Question 36

What myth did Gilroy create?

Answer 36

The myth of black criminality

Question 37

What spreads the myth of black criminality?

Answer 37

The media

Question 38

Which institute believes in the myth of black criminality?

Answer 38

The police force

Question 39

What will police do more to black people?

Answer 39

Stop and search them

Question 40

Who studied Grime?

Answer 40

Charles

Question 41

What did Charles find Grime provided for black working class youths?

Answer 41

A sense of identity

Question 42

What did Grime provide for young black working class people?

Answer 42

Provided an opportunity to get out of poverty

Question 43

How did people gain status in the Grime subculture?

Answer 43

By making their own Grime music