Unit 2, Sociology, Subcultures

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1 Pilcher
transition stage, withdrawal from family, no fixed biological period
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1 Roberts
youth emerged in 1950's, moved quickly from childhood to adulthood
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1 Berger
youthfulness, not all youth are youthful and not all those who are youthful are youth, impulosive, energetic, thrill seeking
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1 Leech
youthquake
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1 Davies
similar to parents, conformitive and conservative
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1 emergence of youth subcultures
1950's - youth emerged, 1960's - The Pill/ Deindustrialisation, 1970's - equal pay act, 1975 - sex discrimination act, 1980's - unemployment rising
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1 Osgerby
Criminal Justice and Social Order Act 1994 (10 - 13 year olds detained, 15 - 17 year olds max sentence - 2 years), 1995 young offenders - military corrective units
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2 Albert Cohen
anit school, status frustration
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2 Cloward and Ohlin
criminal subcultures, illegitimate opp. structure (criminal, conflict, retreatist)
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2 Hebdige
punkis, redefined objects, semiotics
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2 Furlong and Carmel
youth more likely to make individualised decisions based on style not politics
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2 Paul Willis
anti-school, diaries analysed, class consciouseness, rebellious features
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2 Carolyn Jackson
anti-school, ladishness/ ladettes, pressure to be seen as popular
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2 Decker and Van Winkle
pulls and pushes for joing a gang
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2 Clare Alexander
Bengali youth 'Asian Gang', islamophobia
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2 Harding and Bachelor
(harding) girls use social status in gangs, neevr become leaders. (backelor) media over exaggerated girls in gangs, 800 asked, none had connections
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3 Statistical trends
deviant behaviour not reported by police, 17 men, 15 women
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3 Dark figure
police more agressive towards youth, more likely to stop and search youth, labelling processs
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3 labelling process
deviancy amplification spiral, self fulfilling prophecy, master status
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3 victimless crimes
police detection varies from area to area, e.g. underage sex, drinking etc
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3 self report studies
anoymous questionnaire
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3 Cicourel
middle class more likely to let off, judged on appearence , stereotyped by police officers
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3 Pollak
'chivalry thesis' more lenient towards women
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3 Heidensohn
women more likely to be doubly punished due to rold breaking
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3 Katz and Lyng
Katz - failed to see role of pleasure, youth at a state of drift. Lyng - crime is edgework, on the edge between thrill and danger of being caught
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3 Bowling and Phillips
young black and white people similar crime rates, asian rates lower
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3 Lea and Young
ethnic minority males - socially and economically marginalised, ract practices by the police
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4 Parsons
different roles for different ages, youth - transition stage, problem solving stage
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4 Eisenstadt
rebellious style and behaviour helps youth find their identity, scouts and YMCA - risk taking, development of personal identity
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4 Durkheim
concept of anomie, imitation, normlessness and self disgust, individuals driven to suicide
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4 Venkatesh
criminal subcultures - money making gangs, job opportunity
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5 CCCS
YS styles read as a challenge to class inequality, not yet burdened with responsivibility, more likely to challenge the system, WC resist to class opression
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5 Hebdige
semiotics
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5 Phil Cohen
skinheads, symbolic reaction, refused to accept peoples low opinions of them
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5 Stuart Hall
'policing the crisis', moral panic of mugging by black youth
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5 Scraton
race is a problem, cultures of resistance have formed, political act rather than a criminal act
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5 Bourgois
inner city culture, ethnic minorities, chaotic and violent, alternatve economy (legal and illegal activities)
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6 Reddington
(feminism) women involved in punk subculture, male sociologists fail to see this
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6 Valerie Hey
(feminism) friendship groups, WC and MC girls have different norms but both different to those of men
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6 Sue Lees
(feminism) double standard
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6 Cieslik and Pollak
(feminism) contempary society, more choice and unpredictible outcomes, eating disorders
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6 Haenfler
nerd masculinity, online subculture, postpone the need to be sexually and physically active
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6 Haralambos
riots of controversial images of women
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7 Muggleton
less clearly defined and less boundaries between members and non-members, only few people identify themselves with a named subculture
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7 Bennett
neo-tribes
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7 Hybridity
merging of cultures and identities, free to have multiple identites
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7 Thornton
pic n mix, clubbing culture
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7 Blackman
"choosing clubbing subcultures, distanced yourselves from anything political"
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8 David Masland
welfare state, welfare dependency
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8 Charles Murray
underclass lack moral values, single mothers are inadequate, lack paternal discipline
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8 Zero Tolerance
clamp down of first sign of crime to stop them from moving onto more serious crime
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8 Simon Charlesworth
miserable economic positions effects mental health, not everyone commits crime in the underclass
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8 Rex and Tomlinson
reject idea of underclass being deviant, poverty caused by factors beyond their control
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9 Social Construction
same thing interpreted in different ways, ideas of what is deviant depends on peoples point of view
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9 Becker (labelling)
labelling , stages of labelling process 1) crime committed 2) labelled 3) master status 4) self-fulfilling prophecy 5) reject or negotiate label
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9 Edwin lemert
primary and secondary deviance
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9 Phillips and Bowling
understanding high crime rates amongst young black people, hostlity towards the police
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9 Becker (cannabis)
moral crusade (gaining support by convincing others)
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10 Carrabine
crime news focuses on dramatic events rather than the causes
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10 Stan Cohen
mods and rockers, folks and devils, deviancy amplification spiral, moral panic
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10 Fawbert
hoodies
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10 McRobbie and Thornton
moral panics frequent and loosing impact, media has less influence
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