Interactionism and Youth Culture

Question 1

What are the 5 interactionist explanations of youth culture?

Answer 1

1. Labelling creates deviant subcultures
2. Labelling can create deviant subcultures among the working class
3. Labels from the media can exaggerate the youth cultures
4. Labels are applied unequally to ethnic minority groups
5. Labels applied by teachers in education lead to ASS

Question 2

Who argues ‘labelling creates deviant subcultures’ ?

Answer 2

Becker

Question 3

What does Becker argue?

Answer 3

That we often stereotype and group people based on similar characteristics and give that group a name

Question 4

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘labelling creates deviant subcultures’ ?

Answer 4

Braithwaite

Question 5

What does Braithwaite argue?

Answer 5

Agrees with Becker and argues a way to overcome the self fulfilling prophecy is to label the action not the individual. He calls labelling the individual as disintegrative shaming

Question 6

Who argues that labelling can create deviant subcultures?

Answer 6

Chambliss

Question 7

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘labelling can create deviant subcultures among the working class’ ?

Answer 7

Murray

Question 8

What may Murray argue?

Answer 8

That young people become deviant criminals because they are poorly socialised by their family

Question 9

Who argues that labels from the media can exaggerate the youth cultures?

Answer 9

Cohen

Question 10

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘labels from the media can exaggerate the youth cultures’ ?

Answer 10

McRobbie and Thornton: moral panics are an outmoded concept

Question 11

What does McRobbie and Thornton argue?

Answer 11

The frequency of moral panics has increased due to the influence of media and therefore no longer noteworthy. This is now outdated as not everyone is against the ‘deviant’ or the ‘folk devil’

Question 12

Who argues that labels are applied unequally to ethnic minority groups?

Answer 12

Reiner

Question 13

What does Reiner argue?

Answer 13

Argues that a ‘canteen culture’ exists amongst the police: a macho, suspicious, racist and mistrusting culture against non whites

Question 14

What can be used as AO3 for the argument ‘labels are applied unequally to ethnic minority groups’ ?

Answer 14

Stop and search rates

Question 15

Who argues that labels applied by teachers in education lead to ASSC

Answer 15

Gillborn and Sewell

Question 16

What did Gillborn find?

Answer 16

That black children were being treated differently by their teachers and penalised more harshly for bad behaviour

Question 17

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘labels are applied by teachers in education lead to ASS’ ?

Answer 17

Fuller