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Feminist Analysis of Youth Cultures Flashcards

1
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What is Malestream?

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When male sociologists research from a masculine perspective

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Name 2 feminist sociologists who did Youth Culture investigations

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McRobbie and Garber

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What did the sociologists suggest about girls in youth cultures?

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They were invisible as male sociologists only interested in boys behaviour

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What did male sociologists assume about girls in youth cultures?

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They were only passive participants

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What did McRobbie and Garber do?

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Studied roles of girls in youth cultures

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Which youth cultures did McRobbie and Garber investigate?

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Teddy Boys Mods Rockers Hippies

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What did they find with Teddy Girls?

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Dressed like Teddy Boys but spent less time on the streets due to parent control

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What did they find with rockers?

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Girls did not own or ride motorbikes. They played a sexualized role. Male rockers could have exploited them

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What did they find with mods?

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Lots of girls were mods. Parents allowed it as the style wasn’t threatening. Culture was more feminised

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What did they find with hippies?

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Middle class girls in higher education were hippies. Adopted ‘Earth Mother’ style. Organised anti-war protests

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What did Frith say about McRobbie and Garber’s argument?

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Supported it - girls were overlooked as they were not on the streets due to parental controls

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What 2 magazines did girls form youth cultures around?

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Jackie Cathy and Claire

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How did the magazines socialise the girls?

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It taught them how to build and sustain friendships and relationships and look after themselves

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What were the social benefits of the girl magazines?

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Girls could be better connected

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What topics did the magazines cover?

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Clothes Male singers Hair Self care

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What is ‘bedroom culture’?

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Low effort interests that girls could do easily

17
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What were the minimum requirements for bedroom culture?

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A Record Player and permission to invite friends

18
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Who created the concept of bedroom culture?

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McRobbie and Garber

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What is a reason male sociologists found it difficult to get youth culture information from girls?

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They never gave much information as they were ‘giggly’ and ‘passive’

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What did McRobbie and Garber find girls were doing instead of going out for youth culture activities?

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Staying at home listening to music and reading magazines

21
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What is significant about the amount of commitment to bedroom culture?

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Low level commitments

22
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Why might have now level commitments been better for the girls?

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It would not interfere with their other responsibilities

23
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What was important about Jackie?

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It provided ‘maps of meaning’ encouraging relationships with men but safely through fantasy

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What was a limitation with the magazines that McRobbie found?

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The ‘map’ could not be interpreted and adapted to the real world

25
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What did McRobbie label the parts of Jackie enforcing structured femininity?

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Codes’

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What were the codes present in the magazine?

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Code of Romance Code of Fashion and BeautyCode of Pop Music Code of Personal Life

27
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What did McRobbies magazine study reveal?

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Girls used it as a resource to pick up tips on fashion and beauty to attract a man

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How did magazines help girls become more independent?

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Agony Aunt entries such as Cathy and Claire taught them how to solve common problems

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What was passive about the discussion of magazine contents?

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Pop music discussion was only about the male singer, not showing a genuine interest in the music

30
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What did listening to pop music help the girls with?

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Develop fantasies about romance with the male pop artists

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What did McRobbie and Garber’s overall study important?

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Addressed position of girls in youth cultures and youth cultures could exist in private and public

32
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Which agent of socialisation was important to girls youth cultures? Why?

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The Media as they provided the magazines and the music

33
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What did McRobbie suggest about bedroom culture’s existence in 2007?

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They still existed but the parts of the culture are now obtained with computers and smartphones

34
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What did Hall et al research?

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The effects of sexualised song lyrics on young audiences

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What were the effects of sexualised song lyrics for young boys and girls?

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Form boys it was more likely to make them treat young women as objects. For girls it made them more likely to have a poor body image

36
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Which sociologist supports Hall et al’s view?

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Rose

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What did Rose find?

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Less women now in Hiphop than 20 years ago. Women in it now are extremely sexualised

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