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Social Class and Youth Subcultures
Thornton
Youth unemployment and poverty are widespread, she argued that all but the very poorest can partake in club culture
Club cultures, youths are largely exempt from adult financial commitments, such as bulls and mortgages or rent, that the vast majority, from whatever class background, do enjoy disposable income and a short period of freedom from those adult responsibilities to enjoy it
Idea of the CCCS and the significance of social class is an element of youth subcultures
Hebdige
Resistance against mainstream media and fashion industries telling you how to act
Attracted working class, disaffected youths and college student
Bricolage, describing the re use of ordinary objects, putting them together in new way
Incorporation to describe how these subversive styles are often taken over by the media and fashion industries and incorporated into the mainstream so lose their edge and element of rebellion
Evaluation
CCCS analyses suggests that social class and feelings of deprivation and frustration are what lead young people to form subcultures and that slightly different economic situation can explain the difference between them
CCCs were not that positive about the outcome through
Several neo Marxist sociologists from the CCCS analyse various spectacular youth subculture in terms of their social class situation
Brake, argued that these solution were magical symbolic solutions, rather than practical concrete solutions, to the problems faced by the working class youths
They saw youth subcultures a form of resistance to the capitalist systems, against their social class deprivation and saw their rituals of fashion, music and attitudes as the way in which they expressed their resistance
Being in the subculture may have given youth a collective identity and feelings of strength and power, and even made them feel like they were righting back, but eventually most would end up conforming to the adult world as they submitted to society social control
Jeffferson: Teddy Boys
Nowhere else to go so used to hang around in large groups in local cafes
Edwardian style brightly coloured jackets, suede shoes and bootlace ties
Excluded from general affluence, having not done well at school and only a dead future to look forwards to
Jacket symbolise that they were trying to be like their middle class
1950s in the time of high employment and relative affluence
Bootlace ties they wore, were worn by Cowboys in western films representing cool role models
Clarke:Skinheads
Being part of a group with the same attitudes or values made them feel like they could make a change to their circumstances for Brake this was just an illusion
Attitude was macho, aggressive and often racist
People exaggerated aspects of their identity which they felt they were losing, masculinity and working class background
Thought their working class identity was under threat due to economic conditions So what over exaggerating it as a form of resistance