Winlow Flashcards
What has Globalisation led to?
A shift from industrial to late modern or postmodern de-industrialised society
What have there been a loss of?
Trad male manual jobs
What did WC men use trad male jobs for?
Expressing their masc by physical labour and providing for their families
What new jobs have globalisation opened up?
The expansion of night time leisure economy e.g. clubs and pubs
What has the night-time leisure economy provided?
Combination of legal employment, criminal opportunities and a means of expressing masc amongst WC men
Who did Winlow study in 2001?
Bouncers in Sunderland in the North East
What was Sunderland an area of?
De-industrialisation and unemployment
What did working as bouncers provide the young men in Winlow’s study?
Paid work and opportunity for illegal business ventures
What are some examples of illegal business ventures?
Drugs, duty free tobacco, alcohol and protection rackets and masc demonstration through violence
What does Winlow draw on?
Cloward and Ohlin’s distinction between criminal and conflict subcultures
What subculture was present in Sunderland?
Conflict
What was there an absence of in Sunderland?
A professional criminal subculture
AO3 - Support
Provides useful explanation as to how change opens criminal opportunities for men who are able to express masc through violence, by creating conditions for growth of organised criminal subculture