Youth Subcultures: Deviant Subcultures Flashcards
Skinheads by Clarke
Football hooliganism
Hatred towards immigrants
Dressed the same and looked for fights
Evaluation of skinheads by Clarke
not all skinheads are white working class males
They want to defend British values and territory
Punk rockers
Shaved and dyed hair
sexual clothing made from bin liners and school clothes
Lead to highest unemployment rates
Appealed to those with no future
Slightly racist and swastikas
Evaluation of punk rockers
Against authority and capitalism which supports Marxist idea of resistance
Func: why do people participate in deviant culture
Status frustration
Rite of passage
Func:Merton
Lower class more likely to commit crime
Due to frustration conformity, innovation , ritualism, retreatism ,, rebellion
Func: evaluation of Merton
Explains working class but not middle class
New right: why do ppl partake in deviant culture
Murray says due to not receiving proper socialisation into value consensus
Criticises rise of single mothers due to high crime rate among male youths
Based on criminality and laziness
Evaluation of new right
Supports func idea of consensus, those who go against it are more likely to become delinquent
Marx: lea and young
Marginalisation : youth feel pushed to the edges, feelings of frustration
Relative deprivation: feeling deprived when comparing themselves to others through media
Subculture : leads to forming YS, may become deviant
Evaluation of Lea and young
Neo Marxist are more up to date than Marxists
Int: labelling
Powerful groups shape society by making rules for powerless groups
Deviance is a social construct where behaviour is labelled as deviant
Matza: working class are more likely to be negatively labelled than middle class for the same behaviour
Int: Lemert
Primary deviance: deviant act is committed but not seen or labelled as deviant eg youth smoking
Secondary deviance: deviant act repeated as draws attention, label is applied
Int: evaluation
Strongly links to social class so Marxists would support
