feminism

Question 1

What term did Mcrobbie coin?

Answer 1

bedroom culture

Question 2

why did girls spend more time at home compared to boys? mcrobbie

Answer 2

-girls recieved stricter parental controls
-links to the idea that a womens place is in the bedroom

Question 3

what were some components of bedroom culture? mcrobbie

Answer 3

-listening to teenybop and reading magazines
-chatting with friends
-decorating their rooms

Question 4

What are some evaluations of mcrobbie?

Answer 4

+-lincoln 2004 confirms continuing existance of bedroom culture

X-aspects of bedroom culture have changed significantly e.g internet

X-girls have a prescence in rave culture so aren’t completely invisible in youth culture

Question 5

what did Sarah Thornton study?

Answer 5

-more recent study on the marginalisation of women in subcultures
-club culture-women were given a lower status for listening to mainstream music
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Question 6

what does the term subcultural capital mean? thornton

Answer 6

the distinctions made by youth to measure their self worth against the mainstream

Question 7

What are some evaluations for Thornton?

Answer 7

+-ideas about club culture are so relevant

X-post-modernists claim that gender no longer divides youth

Question 8

What did osgerby study?

Answer 8

girls absence in youth cultures due to sexist and aggressive masculinity

Question 9

How has society changed attitudes of men? osgerby

Answer 9

before 1950s men were expected to look after women

now men take on a more aggressive and sexist roles

Question 10

What is a ladette? Jackson

Answer 10

Girls that present themselves in more masculine ways e.g drinking,getting into fights and being loud

Question 11

How did Jackson conduct her research?

Answer 11

-used 3 questionnaires on year 9 people

-semi-structured interviews (75 girls and 78 boys)

Question 12

What conclusion did Jackson reach?

Answer 12

Laddish behaviour can be an advantage from the perspective of girls;it makes them appear cool

-solution to the stress of academic pressure

Question 13

What are some evaluations for Jackson?

Answer 13

+-explores how gender roles have changed since 1970s

X-postmodernists say these ideas are outdated

Question 14

What did archer study?

Answer 14

-girl gangs
-riot grrls

Question 15

What research methods did archer use?

Answer 15

-secondary sources e.g interview transcripts

Question 16

What did the police say to archer about female gangs?

Answer 16

-female gangs are more widespread than they think as recordings of them are limited

Question 17

What gangs did archer use as an example?

Answer 17

Peckham girls (ring leader ‘little miss’)

-Busch corner girls (tag names)

Question 18

Why do women join gangs? Archer

Answer 18

-commitment to protect women from men
-sisterhood

Question 19

What are riot Grrls?

Answer 19

• female response to sexism in the punk scene

Question 20

What did Archer conclude?

Answer 20

Girls are taking an active role in youth culture

-girls are not socially controlled as mcrobbie claims

Question 21

What are some evaluations for Archer?

Answer 21

+-archer researched a topic not often addressed providing more info

+-BBC rise of female violence doc confirmed findings

X-used secondary research,never interacted with the gangs herself,May not be authentic

Question 22

What does reddington argue?

Answer 22

-girls participate in subcultures but are ignored by sociologists

Question 23

Which subculture did jock Young study?

Answer 23

Hippies

Question 24

What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? Jock Young

Answer 24

A prediction that makes itself become true

Question 25

How did the hippies relationship with drugs change once they were labelled?

Answer 25

-before labelling drugs were peripheral to the hippy lifestyle

-police prosecution led to them to wee themselves as outsiders

-retreated into closer groups where drugs became a central activity

Question 26

What are some evaluations for Young?

Answer 26

X-deterministic implies deviance is inevitable after labelling

X-deviance May be a choice rather than something imposed onto us

Question 27

What groups did Stan Cohen study?

Answer 27

Mods and rockers

Question 28

What is a moral panic? Stan Cohen

Answer 28

1.group is identified as a folk devil,threat to societal values

2.media exaggerate scale of the problem

3.moral entrepreneurs e.g police,politicians condemn the group

4.leads to a crackdown on the group and the possibility for a self-fulfilling prophecy