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Functionalism and Youth Subcultures - Coggle Diagram
Functionalism and Youth Subcultures
Functionalism
Period of Transitions
Safe outlet
Essential for growing up with right norms and values
More significant, youth extended
Need to rebel, to learn what is right and wrong
Right of Passive
Need to feel social solidarity with others and learn to share their value consensus
Helps individuals to broaden their horizons, will still have core value of mainstream culture
Youth culture is functional and will be affected by the needs of the government
Transitional phase and bridge from childhood to adulthood
Seek independence from their families they get a sense of belonging from their peers
Eisentadt
Safe and tolerable context in which young people can release the stress and frustration caused by the uncertainty involved in the journey from childhood to adulthood
Opportunity to temporarily rebel and to push the boundaries of acceptable behaviour before they settled down to adult conformity. Acts as a ‘safety valve’
Youth is an isolated phase- risk of anomie
Functional for people, as a transitional stage/ safety valve, youth culture could also be seen as functional for society.
Way of bringing people together in society, shared set of norms and values
Right of passive, youth culture youth culture contributes to societal order meaning people can express their frustration without threatening social order
Parsons
Bridge between two world
Right of passage
Important for society that individuals break ties with their parents (childhood) and develop the independence to start their own families (adulthood)
Extended with education and people taught externally due to having part time jobs as a development of capitalism
Youth is socially contructed, very stressful and isolating time due to the difficult and uncertain path to dependence and responsibility
Abrams
This separate culture with its own norms and values, based around consumption, (working class) became a key part of the economy
Functional for society as a whole.
Youth culture created by the media in early 1950s, consumerism, music and fashion
Affluence without responsibility, allowed to have before adulthood
Eval
Generalising about youth culture as a whole and did not account for the individual differences between youths
Distinct differences between youth culture or between youth subcultures on grounds of social class race and gender
Ethnocentric- white middle class American males