Youth Subcultures: Social Class, Gender, Ethnicity And Hybridity

Question 1

Social class: skin heads and mods by cohen

Answer 1

Skinheads had low self esteem due to their lifestyle
Showed defiance by celebrating working class styles eg traditional men’s working clothes and demonstrating manliness
Aggressive violent, disliked ethnic groups and the middle class

Question 2

Social class: evaluation of skinheads and mods

Answer 2

Overgeneralisation of skinheads

Question 3

Social class: status frustration

Answer 3

Delinquency is a collective response
Youth experience anomie (mismatch between their goals and realistic achievement)
Vandalism, truancy, no monetary reward but to express frustration

Question 4

Social class: evaluation of status frustrations

Answer 4

Box criticised as it does not explain all working class male criminals

Question 5

Social class: middle class hippies users by young

Answer 5

Middles class are in education lomher
Experimental university with sex and drugs etc
More affluence and money, pleasure seeking

Question 6

Social class: evaluation of middle class hippies

Answer 6

Temporal validity, Carried out in 1971

Question 7

Ethnicity: hyper ethnicity Johal

Answer 7

Exaggerate unique aspects of their culture
Eg Rastafarianism