The 5 Theoretical Explanations Of YC Flashcards
Give a general outline of functionalism
Youth cultures allow people to join the value consensus.
Very positive view of society.
It is a structural theory arguing that norms and values are passed down through agents of socialisation. It is a consensus theory of norms and values allowing individuals to be bought together.
What are the five points of functionalism?
- Youth culture is seen as a rite of passage
- Youth acts as a way to bring young people together and create a value consensus
- Youth culture acts as a bridge between adulthood and childhood
- Not all individuals have equal access to shared goals and there was a strain between the socially encouraged goals of society and the social of acceptable means to achieve them.
- Delinquent youth cultures can be a result of status frustration
Who originated the idea that youth culture is seen as a rite of passage?
Parsons
Who argues against parsons theory that youth cultures are seen as a rite of passage?
Berger
Who argues that youth acts as a way to bring young people together and create a value consensus?
Eisenstadt
Who argues against Eisenstadt’s idea that youth acts as a way to bring young people together and create a value consensus
Chambliss
Who states that youth culture acts as a bridge between adulthood and childhood?
Parsons
Who argues against the point that youth culture acts as a ridge between adulthood and childhood?
Post modernists argue that we don’t have universalistic standards anymore in order for youth cultures
Who argues that not all individuals have equal access to shared goals and there was a strain between the social encouraged goals of society and the socially acceptable means to achieve them?
Merton
What were the five categories of Merton’s theory?
Conformists Ritualised Innovators Retreatists Rebels
Who argues against Merton’s theory?
McRobbie
Who studied status frustration?
Cohen
What is a supporting point of Cohen’s research on status frustration?
Useful real life application
Briefly outline Marxism
The fundamental argument of Marxism is that young people are reacting to social oppression, property and deprivation by forming anti-social youth cultures.
What are the five points of Marxism?
- Youth cultures are a result of resisting capitalism
- Youth cultures form due to resisting middle class norms and values
- Youth cultures can be seen as a magical solution to young people who are rejecting the values of society
- Youth cultures emerge due to the positions working class people find themselves in Gramsci used the term hegemony to describe the dominant culture of a society
- Marxist feminist argue that girls form youth cultures as a result of their class and gender
