Deviant Youth Cultures Flashcards

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What is a deviant youth culture?

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A culture made up of young people who engage in behaviours that contradict what the main society considers acceptable

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What is another name for Deviant youth culture members?

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Delinquent

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Which spectacular youth cultures can be considered deviant?

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Teddy Boys Late Skinheads Punks

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What do people in gangs desire?

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Status, respect, material wealth, sense of belonging

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Status, respect, material wealth, sense of belonging

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People who come from dysfunctional families and want a sense of belongingPeople who want to make a lot of money in the illegitimate way

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Who made the study ‘Gang Leader for a day’?

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Venkatesh

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What did Venkatesh quickly see evidence of with the gang structure?

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There was a hierarchy with the younger people on the lower levels

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Why did JT, the Chicago gang leader come back to the projects in the first place?

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He got a college degree and was highly qualified. He felt due to his colour, he would not be able to achieve a high status in legitimate employment so turned to crime

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Why did young men join JT’s gang?

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A sense of belonging, a desire for money and status. Potentially just something to make life less boring as barely anyone was employed in the projects

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What is Hardings Casino analogy for gangs?

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Members feel like they are winning by gaining money and status, but overall they are losing as they could get killed or arrested

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What is a type of gang associated with the Casino analogy?

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County Lines gangs

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What are the backgrounds of young people who join County Lines?

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They are often vulnerable and may also want to buy things but have no money to do so

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How much is County Lines worth a day?

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3 million pounds a day

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What is an age and wage example for County lines children?

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Children as young as 12 making £300 a week to sell drugs

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What is a lethal danger of County lines involvement?

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Getting stabbed by an enemy gang or as punishment

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How can Hardings analogy be applied to County lines?

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The young people feel they are winning by making lots of money but are losing as they could die doing the work

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Who created the Girls in gangs study?

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Batchelor

18
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Which two sociologists did a study on Criminal, Conflict and Retreatist subcultures?

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Cloward and Ohlin

19
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What is opportunity theory?

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Suggests that for deviance to occur, people must have access to illegitimate opportunity structures

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Which 3 different types of Deviant Subculture did Cloward and Ohlin identify?

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Criminal Subculture Conflict Subculture Retreatist Subculture

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What occurs in the Criminal subculture?

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Youths join a criminal group run by adults. They are run like a business and yield financial reward.

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What happens in the Conflict Subculture?

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Youths clash with other groups to protect their territory in gangs. Also sell drugs

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What happens in the Retreatist subculture?

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Youths opt out of society and turn to drugs and alcohol etc

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What do anti school subcultures do?

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Reject norms and values of the education system and their school

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Why do youths join antischool subcultures?

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Often due to the young person feeling they do not belong in the education system possibly due to their class

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What sociological theory did Willis follow?

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Marxism

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What did Willis do in his study?

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Spent 18 months with young working class men from school in to work.

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What did Willis find about how their subculture acted?

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It was “cool” to fail. These boys did not want praise from their teachers

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What did Willis conclude from his study?

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School did not work well as an agent of socialisation. There was no value consensus as lots of pupils rejected norms and values of the school

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What did the boys do once they got in to work?

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They had similar attitudes which were now developed to pass the time in factories