Ethnicity and Deviant Subcultures Flashcards
What is the general view on ethnicity and deviant subcultures?
Criminality is linked with ethnicity and the social disadvantages imposed by social class and race explain why young black youths commit crimes.
NIGHTINGALE ‘YOUNG MALES IN PHILIDELPHIA’
Young males in Phili were consumed by mainstream US culture through the media, the young males feel excluded racially and economically and turn to illegitimate means of achieving society’s goals.
There’s a ‘paradox of inclusion’ which is the desire to be included which drives success.
BOURGOIS ‘DRUG DEALERS’
Drug dealers of Latino and Afro-American background who create and inner-city street culture where deviancy is practiced and becomes the norm.
The drug dealing is used for survival and achieving respect.
