Lecture 13 Straight Edge Flashcards
Subcultural resistance
Straight edge?
What is the straight edge movement?
A subculture characterized by abstention from alcohol, drugs, and promiscuous sex, expressing a form of resistance against mainstream and youth cultures.
Who conducted the ethnographic study on the sXe movement?
Ross Haenfler.
How does the sXe movement conceptualize resistance?
As multilayered and contextual, moving beyond simple rejection of mainstream culture to include personal and political methods at micro, meso, and macro levels.
How does the sXe movement differ from traditional notions of subcultural resistance?
It challenges the notion that resistance is merely stylistic or symbolic, emphasizing a broader conceptualization that includes subjective experiences and interpretations.
What critique does the paper offer against early subcultural theories?
It critiques the narrow focus on style and symbolic resistance, advocating for a broader understanding that includes the diverse ways individuals and groups experience and enact resistance.
What role do personal and political methods play in the sXe movement’s resistance?
They are essential for expressing the movement’s opposition to societal norms and values, with resistance enacted at multiple levels of society.
How does the sXe movement enact resistance at the micro level?
By rejecting substance abuse within families and making changes in individual lives, including the choice to abstain from drugs and alcohol.
What is the significance of the sXe movement’s core value of positivity/clean living?
It symbolizes resistance to mainstream values, encourages a healthy lifestyle, and is seen as a foundation for other core values.
What does the paper suggest about the dynamics of subcultural resistance?
That it is a dynamic and multifaceted phenomenon, reflecting a range of practices and meanings that extend beyond opposition to mainstream culture.
What was straight edge a combination of?
Music was punk, self-realization and cultural challenge was hippie, and clean cut image and personal accountability was skinheads
