youth subculture related to Social class

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  • Created on: 04-03-18 14:44
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  • youth subcultures related to Social Class
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      • HIPPIES
        • BRAKE
          • said that hippies were trying to resist their middle class parents as they didn't want their future to be the same ans said they took drugs and listened to chill out music
          • links to HALL
            • Hall argues how hippies are against capitalism and this is another reason why they resist their middle class lives as it is based round consumer culture and wealth
            • MARXIST
          • MARXIST
        • hippies believed in free love  and were very anti-war. They wanted the world to be communist and for everyone to get a fair chance
        • characteristics:
          • vibrant colours
          • drugs
          • polygamy
          • piecefull protests
      • SKINHEADS
        • HEBDIGE
          • Said that skinheads had an exaggerated working class persona, by their sense of style and characteristics. they did this to assert their masculinity after it was lost due to loss of work.
            • style:
              • doc martins
              • Ben Sherman shirts
              • jeans
              • bomber jackets
            • characteristics:
              • violent
              • racist
              • macho male
          • backed up by CLARKE
            • Said skinheads were very territorial because of the threat that the economy put on them and the potential loss of further jobs
            • MARXIST
          • MARXIST
      • MODS
        • PHIL COHEN
          • said that mods were Working Class but aspire to be Middle class. so use the disposable income to buy stylish smart clothes and their scooters
            • also said that they also have a hedonistic (pleasure lifestyle) to escape the alienation and boredom of a working class lifestyle
          • also said that they also have a hedonistic (pleasure lifestyle) to escape the alienation and boredom of a working class lifestyle
          • backed up HEBDIGE
            • said that Mods wanted to be upwardly mobile to move into the middle class, so did this by the appearance
            • MARXIST
              • PHIL COHEN
                • said that mods were Working Class but aspire to be Middle class. so use the disposable income to buy stylish smart clothes and their scooters
                  • backed up HEBDIGE
                    • said that Mods wanted to be upwardly mobile to move into the middle class, so did this by the appearance
                    • MARXIST

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