topic 5 - participation in deviant subcultures

Question 1

class stats 3

Answer 1

1. exclusion rates are 4x higher for students on free skl meals
2. 60% of youth offenders were on free skl meals
3. priv skl students are more likely to take drugs, smoke and drink alcohol

Question 2

middle class are also deviant, cohen 3

Answer 2

1. mods and rockers
2. mods= middle class, view themselves as intellectually and culturally superior to the rockers. socialised in coffee shops, jazz music, slim fitting suits and rode scooters. females highly visible in this subculture and their increasing disposable income allowed them to fully participate in the social scene
3. mods clashed with the rockers, saw them as ‘stuck up’ and mocked them for emulating the middle class

Question 3

middle class are also deviant, kingsley 3

Answer 3

1. middle class young ppl can also be part of deviant subcultures
2. bullingdon club is an elite dining society associated with oxford uni
3. deviant bc of sexist attitudes and drunken/disorderly behaviour. trashing public restaurants

Question 4

middle class are also deviant, frith 4

Answer 4

1. refers to modern day ‘punk bohemians’
2. both hippie and punk culture were middle class trends rather than working class.
3. art skls have always been the basic source of british youth cultural symbols, filled with educated young ppl who have a class consciousness
4. their awareness of their exploitation drives them to rebel against the capitalist system

Question 5

ethnicity stats 4

Answer 5

1. office of national stats estimates that 85% of children in gangs are black
2. skl exclusion rates are 4x higher for black carribean students
3. 1/3 of prevent referrals are for islamist extremism and 2/3 for right wing extremism
4. white working class boys is lowest achieving group in education system

Question 6

ethnicity, brown 4

Answer 6

1. skinhead movement of the 60s has now seen a resurgence in the form of the far-right extremism and neo-nazism
2. subculture includes listening to ‘nazi rock’ or ‘white power music’ which demonises non white ppl and spreads their fascist ideology
   3, hate is normalised on online chats, young ppl desentised
3. children brainwashed by media, radical ideas seen as normal

Question 7

ethnicity, preston 3

Answer 7

1. british equivalent of american ‘white trash’ is the chav
2. term of abuse which identifies a subculture of youths that often wear burberry baseball camps and cheap jewellery with no taste, eat fast food, have little education and patterns of anti-social behaviour
3. sociologists have debated whether this can be applied to the enter white working class

Question 8

ethnicity, gillborn 2

Answer 8

1. teachers label black Caribbean boys as disruptive and lazy. leads to negative concept and self fulfilling prophecy
2. teachers are quick to discipline black student

Question 9

gender stats 2

Answer 9

1. 50% of children in gangs are girls
2. school exclusion rates are 3x higher for boys than girls

Question 10

gender, mac an ghail 3

Answer 10

1. investigated what the male identity in anti-school subcultures was based on
2. status gained based on their achievements in the 3Fs= football, fighting and f…
3. by conforming to these values, rather than those of mainstream skl, boys had limited success in education

Question 11

gender, sewell 3

Answer 11

1. black male students cope with racism in skls by exerting their ‘machosim’
2. gain status by being rude, disruptive and engaging in violence
3. if they fail to gain status this way, these students retreat and exclude themselves by truanting

Question 12

gender, jackson 3

Answer 12

1. ladettes, traits from traditional masculinity
2. dont work hard in skl and smoking and drinking
3. girls seen as ‘cool’ and took away pressure to succeed in school, didnt work hard anyway

Question 13

gender, archer 3

Answer 13

1. pupil subcultures strongly gendered
2. girls adopted a hyper sexual style, seen as deviant
3. breaking skl dress code through wearing short skirts/ excessive makeup and focusing more on a bf then their studies

Question 14

evaluation, matza 2

Answer 14

1. most ppl experience status frustration but dont join criminal gangs
2. the few that do do it temporarily, drift in and out of delinquency before they grow out of it by adulthood

Question 15

evaluation, muggleton

Answer 15

class, gender and ethnicity arent imp in defining our culture anymore, we can study youth culture as a whole, no divides due to structural inequalities