PATTERNS AND TRENDS YOUTH SUBCULTURES Flashcards
Campbell
The state is responsible for creating extreme forms of masculinity by denying legitimate access
Messerschmidt
‘doing masculinity’- denied legitimate access
Who spoke about ‘doing masculinity?’
Messerschmidt
Heidensohn
‘double deviance’
Why does Heidensohn think girls commit less crime?
Social control
Harding
Girls become fixers for gangs- violence to keep them in line
What did Bougeois study?
Latino drug dealers in NYC- ‘anguish of growing up poor’ led them to deviance
Who studied Latino drug dealers in NYC?
Bougeois
What did Nightingale study?
Black males in Philadelphia- racial and economic exclusion led them to achieving goal through illegitimacy
Who studied black males in Philadelphia?
Nightingale
Mirza
Studied black girls in education- ‘strategic rationalisation’
Sewell
Conformists, innovators, retreatists and rebels- rebels for the stereotype
Archer
Studied young Muslim boys- Islamophobia causes them to ‘turn inwards’
Cohen
‘status frustration’
Decker
push and pull factors
Who talks about push and pull factors?
Decker
White
Gangs give security
Young
‘sociology of vindictiveness’, ‘bulimic society’, ‘intensity of exclusion’
‘sociology of vindictiveness’
Young
‘bulimic society’
Young
Underclass feel ‘intensity of exclusion’
Young
What did Paul Willis find?
All boys school in Birmingham- found that their attitudes were similar in school and work
Mac and Ghaill three types of boy in school
Ordinary lads, academic achievers and macho lads
Brown
‘getting in, getting out and getting on’
Jacobson
1/2 children in custody came from a deprived background
Farrington
Socio-economic deprivation was a key indicator of future criminality
‘teeny bopper’
McRobbie and Garber- subculture centered around bedroom 1970s due to social control
How does Thornton explain why girls have less subcultural capital?
They have less disposable income and invest more time into school
Who spoke about mainstream culture becoming ‘feminised’?
Thornton
‘raga girls’
McRobbie- sexual dancing to challenge male sexism
Reddington- evidence of female influence on spectacular subcultures
Vivienne Westwood, punkettes
Hebdige
Rastafarian culture- smoking marijuana as a form of resistance
Johal
Suggests that some Brasians adopt a hyper ethnic style in resistance- ‘empowerment through indifference’
‘code switching’
Where young Asians move between one culture and another
McRobbie and Garber
‘teeny bopper’- form of resistant youth subculture
Thornton
Mainstream culture becomes ‘feminised’
McRobbie
‘active girls’
Reddington
Argues that there have been very active members of female subcultures, eg Vivienne Westwood
Hebdige
Studied Rastafarian culture, found that smoking marijuana was a form of resistance to white culture and racism
Johal
‘hyper ethnic style’, - ‘empowerment through indifference’
Vale and Juno
Body modifications are a reaction to a sense of powerlessness in an ever-changing world
Jacobson
1/2 children in youth custody come from a deprived background
Body modifications as a reaction to powerlessness
Vale and Juno
Female influence in subcultures, eg Vivienne Westwood
Reddington
Gangs give security
White
Status frustration
Cohen
Teeny bopper as a form of resistance
McRobbie and Garber
Conformists, innovators, retreatists, rebels
Sewell
State denies access to legitimate forms of masculinity in the form of employment
Campbell
Mods as related to cultural hybridity
Influenced by West Indian style
Skinheads as related to cultural hybridity
Caribbean music
Example of cultural hybridity figures in the UK
Eminem
Examples of cultural resistance
Rastafarianism, Brasians
Mercer
Symbolic meaning of dreadlocks- form of resistance
Cultural appropriation
Elvis Presley, popularity of Chinese tattoos
Hutynk
Western cultures strip meanings of symbols and use them in a superficial way
Who speaks about Western cultures stripping the meanings from symbols?
Hutnyk
How is cultural exchange criticised?
British culture is imposed rather than exchanged through imperialism
Subcultures with girls
New Romantics
McRobbie (magazines)
Shift from romance to confident sexuality
Girls do not passively accept content
Blackman
Studied New Wave Girls- resistance to gender stereotypes in school
Who studied New Wave Girls?
Blackman
Reay
See academic achievement as a competition that they cannot win
‘hyper- heterosexuality’
Archer and Yamashita
Strand and Winston
Asian and African boys laughed at when they were seen to work hard- developed anti-school mindset to protect
1994-2004 women in prisons in England and Wales increased by
150%