Paper One Section B - Youth

Question 1

Postman (1982) discusses the disappearance of….?

Answer 1

Childhood

Question 2

In many primitive societies, young people have…?

Answer 2

Initiation Rites

Question 3

A functionalist who wrote the Teenage Consumer (1959)?

Answer 3

Abrams

Question 4

Functionalist Parsons believes youth is a time of?

Answer 4

Transition

Question 5

Which functionalist believes young people test boundaries?

Answer 5

Eisenstadt

Question 6

Criticism of functionalist approach?

Answer 6

They’re all white, middle-class males

Question 7

Functionalists think youth culture is homogeneous and ignores…

Answer 7

• Class
• Gender
• Ethnicity

Question 8

Who are CCCS?

Answer 8

Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies

Question 9

CCCS used this term to describe Mods, Punks, Skinheads etc…

Answer 9

Spectacular youth subculture

Question 10

McRobbie and Garber came up with this concept…

Answer 10

Bedroom Culture

Question 11

Feminists argue that sociological research is…?

Answer 11

Malestream

Question 12

Girl Subcultures

Answer 12

Riot Grrrls or Sk8er Girls

Question 13

Who wrote about the Supermarket of style?

Answer 13

Polhemus

Question 14

Bennett said subcultures have been replaced by…?

Answer 14

Neo-Tribes

Question 15

Clarke and Cohen studied which youth subculture as an example of exaggerated masculinity?

Answer 15

Skinheads

Question 16

Jefferson studied this 1950s subculture

Answer 16

Teddy Boys

Question 17

Brake argues that working-class subcultures were ultimately a…?

Answer 17

Magical Solution

Question 18

What is ‘incorporation’?

Answer 18

When subcultures become mainstream

Question 19

Who wears the colours of red, gold and green?

Answer 19

Rastafarians

Question 20

Bhangra music and bhangramuffins are an example of…?

Answer 20

Brasian culture

Question 21

White person with dreadlocks?

Answer 21

Cultural appropriation

Question 22

Peak age of offending females?

Answer 22

15

Question 23

Peak age of offending males?

Answer 23

18

Question 24

What concept of explaining youth crime did Miller come up with?

Answer 24

Focal concerns

Question 25

What concept of explaining youth crime did Merton come up with?

Answer 25

Strain theory

Question 26

Who did Cohen say were ‘folk devils’?

Answer 26

Mods and Rockers

Question 27

Who argued that young black males are drawn to street crime?

Answer 27

Sewell

Question 28

Belief that male dominated police and courts are softer on females?

Answer 28

Chivalry thesis

Question 29

Blackman and Mirza both studied anti-school subcultures that were anti-school but not…?

Answer 29

Anti-education

Question 30

Who did the famous named study ‘Learning to Labour’?

Answer 30

Paul Willis

Question 31

Cloward and Ohlin argue young people commit crimes because they have…?

Answer 31

Blocked oppertunites

Question 32

Argues labelling leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 32

Becker

Question 33

Cohen said working-class boys commit crime because of poor self-esteem…

Answer 33

Status Frustration

Question 34

Mac an Ghaill said the Macho Lads valued the…

Answer 34

3Fs:

• Fighting
• Football
• Fucking

Question 35

Blackman studied the…

Answer 35

New Wave Girls