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Social Class and Deviant Subculture Criminal and delinquent sub…
Social Class and Deviant Subculture
Criminal and delinquent sub cultures and gangs
Young, sociology of vindictiveness
Live in a bulimic society, a contradictory culture in which citizens are encouraged to worship money, status and success but in which many are excluded from achieving these things
‘Intensity of exclusion’ felt by the younger class, incorporating feelings of resentment humiliation and anger fuelled by economic insecurity and deprivation
Challenges New Right view
Deviant responses, as an emotional response to the social exclusion
Developed ideas from functionalists and subcultural studies to explain underclass youth criminality
Rebellion, risk taking, anger, frustration an exclusion, but which is also driven by a strong desire for inclusion
Hardin, Street Casino
Extensive ethnographic study of local residents, professionals and gang members in south London
Success is determined by acquiring and retaining Street capital
Links to Bordeui
Cultural, economic and social capital
Gangster's social arena of competition where members struggled for distinction, status, position and survival
Gang as a dangerous place, a game of huge stakes for young people- comepition
It is a world of winners and losers, where everyone in the field must play, where rules change and incumbents strive to maintain their privilege’
Social Class
Marginalised and Poverty
Status fustration and deprivation- Cohen
Blocked opportunities- Cloward Ohlin
Miller
Working class males feel that they need to be tough, showing their masculinity and rejecting weakness, by maintain a reputation. Emphasizing their smartness, by they try and out wit each other due to wanting the excitement and thrills from the emotional stimuli. They accept their lives will involve violence, they will not run from it. Due to their future already being determined they go and seek trouble for a thrill. By committing this deviance, it is allowing working class boys to have autonomy, by being interdependent rather than relying on other therefore they do not alert the police, not reporting on other who commit crime
-Linked to fatalism and collectivism = accept they need to help their friends and family in time of conflict.
Focal Concerns
Trouble, toughness, excitement, fate and autonomy
Set of norms and values have become independent to the working-class to mainstream society through which they gain status
Challenges the value consensus as working class boys do not try to gain academic sucess