Youth Subcultures: Formation Flashcards
(24 cards)
Func: What did parsons say
Youth provides an outlet for tensions young people face, tension management
Many young people experience anomie, where they are confused and uncertain stuck between childhood and adulthood
Func: Evaluation of parsons
Ignores differences of YS that make them less cohesive, eg skinheads and hippies
These differences make less consensus and cannot be ignored
Func: What did Eisenstadt find
Youth provides an outlet for tensions young people face, tension management
Many young people experience anomie, where they are confused and uncertain stuck between childhood and adulthood
Your helps them to find their route some way, it is not all the same (homogenous)
Func: Evaluation of Eisenstadt
Criticised bc it is based on the same social groups of the writers: white middle class males, ethnocentric and biased
Func: What is youthquake
By Leech
Young people become more affluent, culture gap between youth and their parents
Youth want to base their life on fun, leisure and rebellion
Marx: What is hegemony
Working class are controlled by hegemony, values dominated by upper class
Marx: what is a spectacular youth subculture
Successful in commanding loyalty of dedicated followers
Express identity through the way they dress
eg. Skinheads, hippies
Marx: Resistance
Hall and Jefferson
WC form the weakest points in the ruling class control of society
Youth control is a dork so resistance against capitalism
Inarticulate way of resolving problems
Marx: exaggeration
As a reaction to capitalist attempt to control WC, youth exaggerate behaviours that define them in order to oppose capitalist control
Eg. Skipping school, stealing
Marx: Clarkes findings of skinheads
Exaggerated version of WC masculinity
Distinct style of manual workers clothes
Recreate traditional WC and recover it
Marx: magical solutions
By Brake
Youth SC provide magical solutions
Im reality youth can do nothing to alter power in society
Convince themselves they will be diff to their parenrs
It is only an illusion not sustained in reality
Marx: incorporation
Youth SC decline and are replaced
Distinct styles eventually find their way into popular culture and is no longer special
Marx: evaluation of Clarke and Brake
Func would disagree, too much focus on resistance
Eisenstadt says it’s to carve out an identity for themselves
Fem: heidensohn
Research is malestream
Females are invisible and largely ignored
Fem: bedroom culture
Mcrobbie
Based around romance fashion and the private domestic space (bedroom)
Girls have less visible cultures
Fem: control theory
Mcrobbie
Girls are controlled by their parents and are prevented from going out and having freedom
Fem: new wave girls
Blackman
Working class, popular and academically able
Mild anti-school culture
Shared experience of family break up
Dressed in black trousers, doc marten boots and oversized jumpers
Did not conform to traditional of femininity
Fem: evaluation of new wave girls
Marxists would criticise as it is biased, does not look at social class
The girls were working class which could had affected
Fem: riot grrrls
Underground feminist punk movement
Address issues like rape, DV, sexuality, female empowerment
Seek to end violence against females
Associated with third wave feminism
Fem: evaluation of riot grrrls
Doesn’t consider effects of race
Eg. Black women don’t want to be a part of it due to being labelled as an “angry black female”
Pomo: post modernism theory
Bauman
Youth styles are fluid and changeable
Pick and mix
Youth is individual, sense of style
Being part of a group might mean the loss of individuality
Pomo: evaluation of post modernist theory
Func such as Parsons and Eisenstadt would argue that youth culture still does exist as they serve the purpose of helping young people transition into adulthood
Pomo: supermarket of style
Polemus
Youths can choose from different fashions, musical tastes and identities, enhanced by the internet
Style over substance, style is most important
Appearance equals identity
Pomo: evaluation of supermarket of style
Evidence of hybridised youth culture eg Brasian music
