Youth - Quiz Flashcards
Postman (1982) discusses the disappearance of…?
Childhood
In many primitive societies young people have…?
Initiation rites
A functionalist who wrote the Teenage Consumer (1959)?
Abrams
Functionalist Parsons believes youth is a time of?
Transition
Which Functionalist believes young people test boundaries?
Eisenstadt
Criticism of Functionalist approach?
All white, middle-class males.
Functionalists think youth culture is homogeneous and ignores…?
Class, gender and ethnicity.
Who are the CCCS?
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.
CCCS used this term to describe modes, punks, skinheads etc…
Spectacular Youth Subculture.
McRobbie and Garber came up with this concept…
Bedroom culture
Feminists argue that sociological research is…?
Male-stream
Girl subcultures?
Riot Grrrls and Sk8er Girls.
Who wrote about the Supermarket of Style?
Polhemus
Bennett said subcultures have been replaced by…?
Neo-tribes
Clarke and Cohen studied which youth subcultures as an example of exaggerated masculinity?
Skinheads
Jefferson studies this 1950s subculture…
Teddy Boys
Brake argues that working-class youth subcultures were ultimately a…?
Magical Solution
What is ‘incorporation’?
When subcultures become mainstream.
Who wears the colours of red, gold and green?
Rastafarians
Bhangra music and bhangramuffins are an example of…?
Brasian culture
White person with dreadlocks…?
Cultural appropriation
Peak age for offending females?
15
Peak age for offending males?
18
What concept of explaining youth crime did Miller come up with?
Focal concerns
What concept of explaining youth crime did Merton come up with?
Strain theory.
Who did Cohen say were ‘folk devils’?
Mods and Rockers
Who argued that young black males are drawn to street culture?
Sewell
Belief that male dominated police courts are softer on females is known as?
Chivalry Thesis
Blackman and Mirza both studied anti-school subcultures that were anti-school but not?
Anti-education
Who did the famous named study ‘Learning to Labour’?
Paul Willis
Cloward and Ohlin argue young people commit crime because they have…?
Blocked opportunities
Who argued labelling leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Becker
Cohen said working-class boys commit crime because of poor self-esteem?
Status frustration
Mac an Ghaill said the macho lads valued the…?
‘3 F’s’
Blackman studied the…?
New Wave Girls
