Marxists ysc

Question 1

Willis - learning to labour

Answer 1

young boys don’t value education as success is unreachable through meritocracy, so they follow their fathers footsteps into manual labour

Question 2

Hall

Answer 2

• ‘mugging’
• moral panics cause a stigmatised identity, targetting certain groups
• the media and society paint youth as deviant, based on assumptions and stereotypes

Question 3

Brake

Answer 3

magical illusion of working class identity through style

Question 4

Jefferson - Teddy Boys

Answer 4

• taking on a middle class dress style despite the fact they are working class
• done to be more like them and reach the goals of their middle-class counterparts which are not tangible for them
• trying to mimic what they can see but not achieve

Question 5

P. Cohen - skinheads

Answer 5

• capitalism and the influx of immigrants broke their working class identity
• through their way of dress, they regain their position as the hypermasculine working class breadwinner
• football hooliganism and territorial disputes

Question 6

Gramski

Answer 6

hegemony

Question 7

Hebdige - punks

Answer 7

• resisted capitalism and mainstream society through their way of dress
• bricolage
• vivienne westwood

Question 8

key concepts

Answer 8

• spectacular subcultures
• cccs
• rebellion and resistance against capitalism
• class identity
• deprivation
• marginalised masculinity