Main points on each theory
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- Main Points on each Theory
- Marxism
- Youth is a resistance against the ruling class.
- 60's and 70's was a time of social issues facing working class youths, e.g. unemployment, racial tensions and strikes.
- Youth is a response and solution to being a part of the working class.
- Functionalism
- Youth is a transition period between childhood and adulthood.
- Test boundaries by rebelling - learning norms and values.
- Anomie causes young people to learn from norms from the media and peers.
- Youth helps relieve stress and frustrations.
- Changes due to capitalism meant that the family can no longer teach children how to be adults.
- Compulsory education helped to ease the transition.
- Feminism
- Females in youth subcultures aren't understood because they are often ignored.
- When they are, it was just stereotypical views of girls often presenting them as the passive 'girlfriends' or just the male subculture members.
- Females in youth subcultures aren't understood because they are often ignored.
- Postmodernism
- Subcultural Capital: about 'being in the know about what it is 'in' or 'out' on the subcultural scene'.
- It is used to gain status and distinguish themselves from themselves from those who are mainstream followers, defining themselves as more 'authentic'
- Neo - tribe: more loosely organised grouping with no fixed membership or deep commitment, rather than a subculture.
- Supermarket of style: youths can create identities by picking up and mixing from various cultures, fashions, lifestyles and music.
- Through media and choice from all different cultures.
- Subcultural Capital: about 'being in the know about what it is 'in' or 'out' on the subcultural scene'.
- Marxism
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