Subcultures and Social Class Flashcards
CCCS ‘DEPRIVATION AND FRUSTRATION’
Social class deprivation and frustration leads youth to subcultures.
Youth is a resistance to the capitalist system.
BRAKE ‘SOLUTIONS’
No concrete solutions to problems faced by working-class youths and subcultures gave youths a collective identity and feeling of strength and power.
THORNTON ‘YOUTH BEING EXEMPT’
Youths were exempt from financial commitment, thus the majority enjoy a disposable income and short period of freedom.
All but the very poorest can partake in the club culture.
HEBDIGE ‘MODS’
Mods were working-class and an affluent group who used their money to create a style that was resistant to the middle-class. They showed intelligence and that they could be cool in Italian suits and scooters. =
HEBDIGE ‘INCORPORATION’
Subversive styles are often taken over by the media and fashion industries and are taken into the mainstream society.
The youths within these spectacular subcultures lose their edge, element of rebellion and distinctiveness.
JEFFERSON ‘TEDDY BOYS’
Emerged in the 1950’s during high employment and relative affluence.
They did badly in school and had dead-end futures.
They wore jackets that symbolized their middle-class superiors and they wore ties that resembled cowboys.
CLARKE ‘SKINHEADS’
They represented the working-class majority and wore extreme forms of manual workers clothes.
They acted macho and aggressive due to their feeling of working-class identity being under threat by immigration.
