Funtionalism and Youth Culture Flashcards
What are the 5 functionalist explanations of youth culture?
- Youth culture is seen as a rite of passage
- Youth acts as a way to bring young people together and create a value consensus
- Youth culture act as a bridge between family and wider society
- Not all individuals have equal access to shared goals and there was a strain between the socially encourage goals of society and the socially acceptable means to achieve them
- Delinquent youth cultures can be a result of status frustration
Who argues that youth culture is a rite of passage?
Parsons
What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘youth culture is seen as a rite of passage’ ?
Berger
Who argues that youth culture acts as a way to bring young people together and create a value consensus?
Eisenstadt
What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘youth culture acts as a way to bring people together and create a value consensus’?
Chambliss
Who argues that youth culture acts as a bridge between family and wider society?
Parsons
What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘youth culture acts as a bridge between family and wider society’ ?
Postmodernist Bennet
What does Bennett argue?
That we don’t have universalistic standards anymore in order for youth cultures to form
Who argues that not all individuals have equal access to shared goals and there was a strain between the socially encourage goals of society and the socially acceptable means to achieve them?
Merton
What is used as AO3 for Merton’s strain theory?
Malestream - doesn’t explain his theory in relation to girls - McRobbie
Who argues that delinquent youth cultures can be a result of status frustration?
Cohen
What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘delinquent youth cultures can be a result of status frustration?
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