Post modernism and youth

Question 1

Who critiques others?

Answer 1

Widdicombe and woofit

Question 2

Why did Widdicombe and woofit critique others?

Answer 2

They believed they had imposed meanings on subcultures

Question 3

What did Widdicombe and woofit suggest?

Answer 3

That subcultures don’t have fixed meanings and refuse to impose framework on subcultures other sociologists look to far into it

Question 4

What is an strength of widdicombe + w?

Answer 4

Accurate betrail of youth earlier sociologists have been bias (up to date)

Question 5

What is a crtitique?

Answer 5

However there are still youths based on gender ethnicity and social class

Question 6

What did maffessoli discover?

Answer 6

neo tribes and are based simply on the desire to be together, rather than for any particular collective purpose, a group of people that have commitment based on warmth companionship

Question 7

who and what ideas support maffessoli?

Answer 7

Bennett, who looked into clubs in Newcastle and found no evidence of youth cultures, but saw these Neo-tribes and suggested they are based around fashion and lifestyle

Question 8

What did Hetherington find?

Answer 8

fashion and musical styles of 1980s were too bitty and varied to be described youth culture

Question 9

What did polemus look into?

Answer 9

The supermarket of style young people pick and chose elements of what they would like to be and no longer identifiable as youth cultures.

Question 10

how could post modernism explain post modernism?

Answer 10

Cashmore
Luke and Luke
Gilroy

Question 11

What did luke and luke find?

Answer 11

cultural hybridity - due to gloablisation, young people can now chose styles from global cultures and apply them to local values e.g. white rastas dont have similar values and adopt similar styles

Question 12

What did cashmore do?

Answer 12

rap picked up by many variations of original rap, youth cultures draw upon different global elements and adopt them to local ethnic circumstances

Question 13

What did gilroy do?

Answer 13

people who have left their place or origin have links there but also adopt these to new enviroment, for gilroy subcultures are a mix of their cultural origin and present circumstances

Question 14

What did willis do?

Answer 14

wider range of style and task, so youths have lots of ways to define their identity, therefore too much diversity these days for one dominant subculture