Feminist Analysis of Youth Cultures

Question 1

What is Malestream?

Answer 1

When male sociologists research from a masculine perspective

Question 2

Name 2 feminist sociologists who did Youth Culture investigations

Answer 2

McRobbie and Garber

Question 3

What did the sociologists suggest about girls in youth cultures?

Answer 3

They were invisible as male sociologists only interested in boys behaviour

Question 4

What did male sociologists assume about girls in youth cultures?

Answer 4

They were only passive participants

Question 5

What did McRobbie and Garber do?

Answer 5

Studied roles of girls in youth cultures

Question 6

Which youth cultures did McRobbie and Garber investigate?

Answer 6

Teddy Boys Mods Rockers Hippies

Question 7

What did they find with Teddy Girls?

Answer 7

Dressed like Teddy Boys but spent less time on the streets due to parent control

Question 8

What did they find with rockers?

Answer 8

Girls did not own or ride motorbikes. They played a sexualized role. Male rockers could have exploited them

Question 9

What did they find with mods?

Answer 9

Lots of girls were mods. Parents allowed it as the style wasn’t threatening. Culture was more feminised

Question 10

What did they find with hippies?

Answer 10

Middle class girls in higher education were hippies. Adopted ‘Earth Mother’ style. Organised anti-war protests

Question 11

What did Frith say about McRobbie and Garber’s argument?

Answer 11

Supported it - girls were overlooked as they were not on the streets due to parental controls

Question 12

What 2 magazines did girls form youth cultures around?

Answer 12

Jackie Cathy and Claire

Question 13

How did the magazines socialise the girls?

Answer 13

It taught them how to build and sustain friendships and relationships and look after themselves

Question 14

What were the social benefits of the girl magazines?

Answer 14

Girls could be better connected

Question 15

What topics did the magazines cover?

Answer 15

Clothes Male singers Hair Self care

Question 16

What is ‘bedroom culture’?

Answer 16

Low effort interests that girls could do easily

Question 17

What were the minimum requirements for bedroom culture?

Answer 17

A Record Player and permission to invite friends

Question 18

Who created the concept of bedroom culture?

Answer 18

McRobbie and Garber

Question 19

What is a reason male sociologists found it difficult to get youth culture information from girls?

Answer 19

They never gave much information as they were ‘giggly’ and ‘passive’

Question 20

What did McRobbie and Garber find girls were doing instead of going out for youth culture activities?

Answer 20

Staying at home listening to music and reading magazines

Question 21

What is significant about the amount of commitment to bedroom culture?

Answer 21

Low level commitments

Question 22

Why might have now level commitments been better for the girls?

Answer 22

It would not interfere with their other responsibilities

Question 23

What was important about Jackie?

Answer 23

It provided ‘maps of meaning’ encouraging relationships with men but safely through fantasy

Question 24

What was a limitation with the magazines that McRobbie found?

Answer 24

The ‘map’ could not be interpreted and adapted to the real world

Question 25

What did McRobbie label the parts of Jackie enforcing structured femininity?

Answer 25

Codes’

Question 26

What were the codes present in the magazine?

Answer 26

Code of Romance Code of Fashion and BeautyCode of Pop Music Code of Personal Life

Question 27

What did McRobbies magazine study reveal?

Answer 27

Girls used it as a resource to pick up tips on fashion and beauty to attract a man

Question 28

How did magazines help girls become more independent?

Answer 28

Agony Aunt entries such as Cathy and Claire taught them how to solve common problems

Question 29

What was passive about the discussion of magazine contents?

Answer 29

Pop music discussion was only about the male singer, not showing a genuine interest in the music

Question 30

What did listening to pop music help the girls with?

Answer 30

Develop fantasies about romance with the male pop artists

Question 31

What did McRobbie and Garber’s overall study important?

Answer 31

Addressed position of girls in youth cultures and youth cultures could exist in private and public

Question 32

Which agent of socialisation was important to girls youth cultures? Why?

Answer 32

The Media as they provided the magazines and the music

Question 33

What did McRobbie suggest about bedroom culture’s existence in 2007?

Answer 33

They still existed but the parts of the culture are now obtained with computers and smartphones

Question 34

What did Hall et al research?

Answer 34

The effects of sexualised song lyrics on young audiences

Question 35

What were the effects of sexualised song lyrics for young boys and girls?

Answer 35

For boys it was more likely to make them treat young women as objects. For girls it made them more likely to have a poor body image

Question 36

Which sociologist supports Hall et al’s view?

Answer 36

Rose

Question 37

What did Rose find?

Answer 37

Less women now in Hiphop than 20 years ago. Women in it now are extremely sexualised