Marxism and Youth Culture

Question 1

What are the 5 Marxist explanations of youth culture?

Answer 1

1. Youth cultures are a result of resisting capitalism
2. Youth cultures form due to resisting middle class norms and values
3. Youth cultures can be seen as a magical solution to young people who are rejecting the values of society
4. Youth cultures emerge due to the positions working class people find themselves in
5. Marxist feminists argue that girls form youth cultures as a result of their class and gender

Question 2

What is the ideology of capitalism?

Answer 2

Is that individuals are free to make money, own businesses, sell goods and own private property

Question 3

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘youth cultures form as a result of capitalism’ ?

Answer 3

Eisenstadt

Question 4

Who argues that youth cultures form due to resisting middle class norms and values?

Answer 4

Willis

Question 5

What can be used as AO3 for the argument ‘youth cultures emerge as a response to resisting middle class norms and values’ ?

Answer 5

Becker

Question 6

Who argues that youth cultures can be seen as a magical solution to young people who are rejecting the values of society?

Answer 6

Brake

Question 7

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘youth cultures can be seen as a magical solution to young people who are rejecting the values of society’ ?

Answer 7

Functionalist Parsons - rite of passage

Question 8

Who argues that youth cultures emerge due to the positions working class people find themselves in?

Answer 8

Gramsci

Question 9

What does hegemony mean?

Answer 9

The dominant culture of a society

Question 10

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘youth cultures emerge due to the positions working class people find themselves in’ ?

Answer 10

Thornton

Question 11

What does Thornton suggest?

Answer 11

That class is irrelevant because most youth cultures are media generated

Question 12

Who argues that girls form youth cultures as a result of their class and gender?

Answer 12

McRobbie and Garber

Question 13

What is used as AO3 for the argument ‘girls form youth cultures as a result of their class and gender’ ?

Answer 13

Postmodernist Maffesoli

Question 14

What does Maffesoli argue?

Answer 14

That group identities are no longer formed along the traditional lines of gender and young people are more interested in their individual needs