Youth Culture - Theory

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  • Created on: 23-07-24 09:49
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  • Youth Culture & Theory
    • Postmodernists
      • Maffesoli - Neo-Tribes - young people can move from 1 tribe to another, taking different aspects of clothing or music, and then moving on
        • Hollands and Chatterton (2002) - challenge neo-tribes -> just influenced by club culture which is driven by the media
      • Believe identities are no longer fixed or determined by class, gender, or ethnicity
        • MIPS (Manchester Institute of Popular Culture) - studied clubbers - no clear ethnic, class or gender distinctions
      • Polhemus - Supermarket of Style - youth can create identities by picking and choosing from different cultures, fashions, and music
      • Evaluation - still distinct youth subcultures, like goths and emos. Hollands and Chatterton - youth culture is mainly 'corporate' and mainstream.
    • Marxists (Neo-Marxists)
      • Believed that subcultures arised due to capitalism
      • Evaluation - Neo-Marxists were "finding meanings that didn't exist". Feminists, like McRobbie & Garber - CCCS ignored women in subcultures. CCCS focuses on spectacular subcultures - most youth aren't part of a subculture
      • Clarke -Skinheads -> wore an exaggerated form of working-class masculinity, racist - felt under threat of economic issues created by capitalism
      • CCCS - researched youth subcultures
    • Functionalists
      • See youth as a transitional stage from childhood to adulthood
      • Eisenstadt - saw youth culture as a way of bringing you into society - allows people to let off steam and test boundaries
      • Evaluation - functionalists spoke about youth culture generally, and did not focus on specific youth subcultures. Ethnocentric analysis
    • Feminism
      • The role of girls in subcultures has been ignored
      • McRobbie & Garber - girls absent from youth subcultures, and when they were studied, they were seen as "just the girlfriends"
      • Evaluation - other theories which are newer and more up to date, like Post Modernism, suggest that gender is less significant

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