youth subcultures Flashcards

Question

Murray

Answer 1

based on dependency culture of laziness they don’t want to work and see claiming benefits as a positive lifestyle leads to an increase of single mothers raising children with no father figure makes become sexual predators with poor impulse control girls become emotionally damaged blames welfare state for making it easier to claim benefits should give promotions to couples who are together (nuclear families)

Answer 2

relative deprivation + marginalisation = deviant subcultures

Answer 3

there must be reason these groups are being labelled as deviant

Answer 4

lads saw themselves as failures at school bullied those who weren’t macho and were weak knew they’d get a job bc at their parents work place so gave up behaviour carried on at workplace

Answer 5

‘GETTING IN’ low achievers wants to work manual ‘GETTING OUT’ high archives wanting to improve social positions ‘GETTING ON’ ordinary achievers wanting to comply with school rules

Answer 6

‘doing masculinity’ trying to prove their masculinity through violence as they can’t become bread winners

Answer 7

girls more subject to control in terms of how long they can be out domestic fear and fear of being alone discourages girls from joining deviance not feminine to become deviant

Answer 8

girls use social skills to carve out a role they’re fixers gain street capital

Answer 9

macho lads valued the 3 Fs football fighting and fucking formed resistance to assert their masculinity

Answer 10

lads and ladettes cool to be clever but not to work hard avoided letting people know that they revised to avoid looking weak if they did fail smoke, swore, fought, open about sex lives

Answer 11

El barrio believed in the american dream of financial success but grew up poor they’re ambitious and motivated for money they deal drugs to gain money to live the american dream they have a desire to feel included in America

Answer 12

ethnic minorities want to be included and want success, designer labels, american lifestyle but they can’t achieve it due to racism by anuthority and society. This exclusion leads to more exclusion and feeling or marginalisation

Answer 13

young gifted and black black sisters - black girls were pro education but received racism from teachers. They were deviant but still wanted to achieve well at school. Confused teachers when they outperformed white people

Answer 14

muslim boys demonstrated religious identity through subcultures acting against islamaphobia they identified as muslim rather than pakistani found religion more important than ethnicity subculture gave them protection from racism

youth subcultures Flashcards

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