Youth subcultures Flashcards
what are spectacular youth subcultures?
Highly visible subcultures in 50s to 70s eg. Teddy boys, mods and punks.
Flamboyant styles and confrontational attitudes.
what is the ccs?
contemporary cultural studies (birmingham university) studied subcultures
what do functionalists believe about formation of subcultures?
society based on consensus, important that individuals feel intergrated into society. youth is transitional stage from childhood to adulthood.
what did parsons say about youth? (func)
the category only emerged due to changes in family because of capitalism. period of training and socialisation not previously required. youth culture is rite of passage.
what did eisenstadt say about youth culture? (func)
youth culture is way of bringing youth into society.
stress and anomie risk at this time, need peers for sense of belonging.
safe outlet and let of steam.
rebellion normal at this time.
what did Abram’s say about youth culture? (func)
emergence of youth culture liked to emergence of distinct group with spending power targeted by businesses.
so youth culture created by media.
evaluate the functionalist view of youth culture formation
generalising as a whole, didn’t account for individual sub cultural differences. race gender etc not considered. most evidence from white mc american males so may be ethnocentric.
what did gramsci mean by hegemony? (neo marx/marx)
ideological dominance or social authority ruling class has over subordinate class
what did marxists say about social conditions and subcultures?
despite looking different from parents or other youths, members of the subcultures still faced same experiences and social conditions as their social class. so style could be seen as their response and solution to being wc
evaluate the neo marxist/marxist view of youth culture formation
finding means that didn’t exist, fashion and behaviour have nothing to do with class just fun.
Mcrobbie and garber in cccs but feminists challenged.
mc had subcultures like hippied
