Youth Subcultures OCR

A subculture are often defined as ...

• A culture within a culture

• Flamboyant and instantly recognisable styles within groups

• A cluster of cultures related only to dance and rave

• Loosely organised grouping with no fixxed membership

Match the following

• Thornton

• Skinheads

• Hebdige

• Teddy Boys

• Tony Jefferson

• Club Culture

• John Clarke

• MODs

Functionalists see Youth Culture as ...

• A time where young people focus on their social class and economic situation

• A transitional stage, where children experience social integration and seek independence.

• A time for fluidity and an eclectic approach to style.

Post Modernists see Youth Culture as ...

• A time where young people focus on their social class and economic situation

• A transitional stage, where children experience social integration and seek independence.

• A time for fluidity and an eclectic approach to style.

Match the following

• McRobbie

• Neo-Tribes

• Polhemus

• Supermarket of Style

• Thornton

• Bedroom Culture

• Maffesoli

• Teenage Market

Match the following

• Anti-School Subcultures

• Groups of people who reject the norms and values of education.

• Criminal Subcultures

• A subculture involved in deviant behaviours

• Delinquent subcultures

• Highly visible subcultures from the 50s/60s.

• Spectacular Subcultures

• Used by the police/media to refer to a group who cause harm to a community

• Gangs

• Subcultures actively involved in criminal behaviours

Functionalist explanations of deviant subcultures can be linked with strain theory. Individuals may experience a strain between the goals and values of society and what they are able to achieve. This is put forward by which key theorist?

• Cohen

• Merton

• Parsons

• Lea and Young

Some individuals may experience 'blocked opportunities', not everyone has the same educational, social, economic opportunities. Cloward and Ohlin acknowledge that the same deviant means cannot be used to achieve these goals. Where can you corroborate this view in relation to social theory?

• Marxism

• Feminism

• The New Right

• Functionalism

Match the following types of subculture put forward by Cloward and Ohlin.

• Criminal

• Formed in unstable disorganised areas with high mobility. There is no access to organised hierarchy of criminal opportunity.

• Conflict

• Develop in stable, slum areas in which there is a hierarchy of criminal opportunity.

• Retreatist

• Youths fail to achieve in legitimate or illegitimate terms, unable to achieve success in mainstream values.

Which of the following statements align with the New Right perspective of deviant subcultures?

• Deviance is a social construct, working-class males usually get labelled.

• Boys without fathers tend to grow up unsocialised and thus turn to deviancy.

• Teenage boys desire status, respect in the eyes of others.

• The underclass can be seen as a deviant subculture