marxist view of youth cultures - sociolgists Flashcards
stanley cohen
media makes youth cultures appear as exciting and young people are attracted to an illusion of a better life style
Hebdige
studied mods and rockers
found rockers were inspired by the American greace lifestyle - explaining the motorcycles and leather jacket consumption
Abrams
1959 - teenage consumer
emergence of youth cultures link to the emergence as a distinct group who have been targeted by the media
Cohen and clarke
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
hebdige
punks were a form of resistance against the consumerist capatilst society with they argued to lack individualism and a sense of rebellion
Jefferson
1950s - rise of the teddy boys coincided with he expansion of employment and a general rise of affluence
mike brake
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
frith
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
reimer
youth cultures were for having fun
len barton
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
Mc robbie and barber
challenged most studies produced by the cccs and produced their own studies entering around female subcultures ( bedroom culture )
malestream sociology
muggleton
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
Sarah Thornton
agrees with post modernists and argues when discussing the formation of youth cultures class is irrelevant because culture ( in contemp society ) is media generated
liang
1985
many punks came from middle class art students
brake
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