Sociology-Youth
Complete Youth Revision for the second sociology paper.
- Created by: Lucy Stevens
- Created on: 12-04-13 16:00
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- Youth
- Childhood
- Between infancy and adolescence
- Disappearance of childhood
- Innocent age is being eroded
- Neil Postman (1983) Adult messages in media
- Tweenagers. Make up etc
- Loss of innocence
- Children grow up fast and become aware of adult issues early
- Construction
- Biological stage
- Hormonal changes at puberty
- Changes in attitudes and behaviour
- Being irritable and unsure of themselves
- Hormonal changes at puberty
- Social construction
- Philippe Aries (1962)-childhood invented in middle ages. before-mine adults
- The law-rights and responsibilities of young people differ in different societies
- Social norms-customs vary e.g age to marry
- Emotional/ behavioural norms
- Margret Mead (1927) Samoan young people do not have this turmoil
- Biological stage
- Transition
- Allows a young person to leave behind childhood ideas
- Experiment with adult roles
- Rites of passage
- Debutantes
- English upper class girls.Rich Americans-balls etc
- Suri life
- Suri boys become Rora- have to complete tasks
- Bar/bat mitzvah
- Transition to adulthood. 12 for girls 13 for boys
- Dassanech life
- Female circumcision-recognition as a woman
- Debutantes
- Mead (1927)- not all cultures have a transitional stage
- Control
- Conformity-following the rules
- Informal agents
- Gangs
- Types of gangs
- Criminal
- Crime-attain status
- Conflict
- Fighting gangs-escape lack of success
- Retreatist gangs
- Illegal drug using and hustling. Delinquency
- Criminal
- Anne Widdecombe (2008)- girl gangs. Moral panic
- Reasons for joining
- Boredom
- "Something to do"
- Peer Pressure
- Rites of passage
- Sense of belonging
- Miller (1958)
- Friendship
- Social network
- Williamson (1997)-gangs not always criminal. Focus on friendship. Social class important
- Media moral panic-"hoodies"
- Social network
- Lack of role models
- Replace missing fathers
- Status frustration
- Revenge on society
- Albert Cohen (1955)-resentment
- Reggie Yates (2012)- money main reason
- Boredom
- Types of gangs
- Subcultures
- Gender
- McRobbie & Garber (1976)- bedroom subculture
- Post-war affluence, extended schooling and the unclear position of teenagers
- The mass media
- Teenage market
- Stan Cohen (1972)-youth subcultures are the creation of the mass media
- Leisure
- More money and free time- enjoy movies, night life,fashion etc
- Paul Hodgkinson (2002)-formed on shared interested
- Autonomy-shared activities
- Affluence
- More money than previous generations (1950-60's)
- Industry responds to growing spending power of the age group-specific goods
- More money than previous generations (1950-60's)
- Ethnicity
- Links groups of young people-something in common
- Class
- Economic status
- Clarke (1976)- skinhead culture united members because of frustration about being poor+ unemployed
- "Consistent distinctiveness"
- Gender
- Childhood
- Subcultures
- Gender
- McRobbie & Garber (1976)- bedroom subculture
- Post-war affluence, extended schooling and the unclear position of teenagers
- The mass media
- Teenage market
- Stan Cohen (1972)-youth subcultures are the creation of the mass media
- Leisure
- More money and free time- enjoy movies, night life,fashion etc
- Paul Hodgkinson (2002)-formed on shared interested
- Autonomy-shared activities
- Affluence
- More money than previous generations (1950-60's)
- Industry responds to growing spending power of the age group-specific goods
- More money than previous generations (1950-60's)
- Ethnicity
- Links groups of young people-something in common
- Class
- Economic status
- Clarke (1976)- skinhead culture united members because of frustration about being poor+ unemployed
- "Consistent distinctiveness"
- Gender
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