marxist view of youth cultures - sociolgists

Question 1

stanley cohen

Answer 1

media makes youth cultures appear as exciting and young people are attracted to an illusion of a better life style

Question 2

Hebdige

Answer 2

studied mods and rockers
found rockers were inspired by the American greace lifestyle - explaining the motorcycles and leather jacket consumption

Question 3

Abrams

Answer 3

1959 - teenage consumer
emergence of youth cultures link to the emergence as a distinct group who have been targeted by the media

Question 4

Cohen and clarke

Answer 4

working class values were exaggerated to preserve working class communities as they felt threatend e.g skin heads negative attitude to the wind rush generation and influx of immigration into the uk

Question 5

hebdige

Answer 5

punks were a form of resistance against the consumerist capatilst society with they argued to lack individualism and a sense of rebellion

Question 6

Jefferson

Answer 6

1950s - rise of the teddy boys coincided with he expansion of employment and a general rise of affluence

Question 7

mike brake

Answer 7

magical solutions - 1984
youth cutltures were a magical way to escape reality and a way for them not to be life their parents ( e.g escaping cycle of poverty )
even thought it was an escape they had no real status in society
magical solutions provided a sense of power

Question 8

frith

Answer 8

1978
high poverty and unemployment among wc children that lived in council estates was a reason they turned to youth cultures as they were bored and looking for something to entertain themselves with

Question 9

reimer

Answer 9

youth cultures were for having fun

Question 10

len barton

Answer 10

2006
criticise the cccs
argues that it romanticises unpleasant youth cultures e.g skin heads who were racist and showed violent behaviour towards the public

Question 11

Mc robbie and barber

Answer 11

challenged most studies produced by the cccs and produced their own studies entering around female subcultures ( bedroom culture )
malestream sociology

Question 12

muggleton

Answer 12

critiques the cccs
assumes that most youth cultures originate from working class
they argue many people who join youth cultures are the ones who can invest in styles and trends to fit in
these people cain cultural capital

Question 13

Sarah Thornton

Answer 13

agrees with post modernists and argues when discussing the formation of youth cultures class is irrelevant because culture ( in contemp society ) is media generated

Question 14

liang

Answer 14

1985
many punks came from middle class art students

Question 15

brake

Answer 15

1977
found hippies were a well organised subculture - comprised of students and ex students
they were full of contradictions:
distasteful too technology yet listened to music publicly on speakers
reject impure foods but took synthetic drugs