Week 1

Question 1

When was the Elizabethan Period?

Answer 1

1558-1603

Question 2

What is “Rogue Literature?”

Answer 2

Booklets and stories about characters who have gone rogue (unreliable or mischievous wanderers)

Question 3

Who coined the term “rogue”?

Answer 3

Thomas Harmon

Question 4

What was Harmon’s definition of “rogues”?

Answer 4

“Vagrants and thieves who use disguise, rhetorical play, and counterfeit gestures, to insinuate themselves into lawful and political context”

Question 5

What was happening in the Elizabethan period do allow rogue subculture to cultivate a market?

Answer 5

Social Unrest

• Elizabethan Settlement Laws (immigrant crackdown)
• The word “vagabond” was given legal weight (“wanderer”)
• Vagabond Underworld (a society of the road)
• Dominant cultures (negative) view of vagabonds, considered to be radicals and non-conformist

Question 6

What are the 2 key ideas of subcultural studies?

Answer 6

1. CLASH between dominant culture and smaller social groups

2. DISRUPTION of the dominant social order

Question 7

What are some of the social structures of subcultural groups?

Answer 7

• Elaborate hierarchies and rules
• Barter economies (ex: prison culture and cigarettes)
• Master-Apprentice relationships
• Secret languages

Question 8

What is a “rake”?

Answer 8

A rake is a usually privileged white male with questionable morals and available resources

Question 9

Define “cant”

Answer 9

Cant is a word used in folk speech that describes language used to deceive, defraud and conceal
(It was used by beggars and criminals to hide their dishonest and illegal activities from potential victims) - E. Partridge

Question 10

What is key about studying criminology, anthropology and ethnography?

Answer 10

All of these subjects involve the incorporation of FIELDWORK

Question 11

What terms were used to describe ethnographic and folklore fieldwork?

Answer 11

Ethnographic - “slumming”

Folklore - “participant observation”

Question 12

What are the guiding principles for identifying/studying subcultures?

Answer 12

• An esoteric, coded language
• Deviation from home and family
• Disconnect from a settled existence

Question 13

Who was Ferdinand Tonnies?

Answer 13

A German sociologist who is known for distinguishing society into two types of social groups (binary segments)

Question 14

What were the terms to describe social groups that Tonnies created?

Answer 14

Gemeinschaft (Community) - social relations between individuals, based on close personal and family ties or community

Gesellschaft (Society) - Social relations based on impersonal ties, as duty to a society or organization (associated with alienation/isolation)