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Gender and Youth Deviance Real - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Undercalss- do not want to work- reliance on benefits as belive treated by goverment
        
        Unmarried single mother
        
        Not father, cannot socialise properly as not role model- commit deviance
        
        Higher rates of crime among male youths from deprived social backgrounds
        
        Youth lack socialisation into value consensus
        
        Deviant set of norms and values, based on dependency, criminality, and laziness
  - - - Self for-filling prophecy
        
        Labels- power- stick
        
        Deviant- negative label has been applied and deviant behaviour is simply behaviour that people- accepts the label- change their behaviour to live up to the label
        -Working class- interact differently with the police- past experience, escalate the situation
        
        Social construction of deviance- young people who lack power act in a particular way, and another group, for example, adults in general, teachers, police officers and so on - with more power - respond negatively to it and define it as deviant
  - - - Smartness, Excitement, Trouble, Toughness, Streetwise
        
        Fate is already decided
        
        Challenged value consensus
        
        Working-class boys do not even try to gain academic success - middle-class value
        
        Freedom and Excitement
        
        Norms and values have become independent to the working-class to mainstream society through which they gain status
        
        Fatalism and collectivism = accept they need to help their friends and family in time of conflict
        
        Do not go and tell the police, not reporting others for crime
  - - - Football, Fucking and Fighting
        
        Male Subcultures- macho lads
        
        Extreme forms of macho behaviour- hegemonic masculinity- perhaps is a form of resistance to a perceived threat to their masculine identity
        
        Bullied academic achievers and had a clear anti school subculture
  - - - Gang acts as a location for ‘doing masculinity- accomplished’ and proved
        
        Want reputation as hard man
        
        Toughness is central- being in control of others
        
        Attracted by crime and gang violence because this gives them the opportunity to express their masculinity
        
        Being able to ‘look after yourself’ in aggressive situations is also deemed important
        
        Often young males seek out confrontation with other young men
- - - - Deviant- someone who a negative label is applied to and behaviour lives up to that label
        
        Self forth filling prophecy
        
        Power- labels stick
        
        Causes people to live up to this
        
        Working-class interact differently with the police due to past experiences
        
        Social construction of deviance- Groups such as young people who lack power act in a particular way, and another group, for example, adults in general, teachers, police officers and so on - with more power - respond negatively to it and define it as deviant
  - - - Ladette culture
        
        Working class Girls
        
        Smoking, swearing, disrupting, acting hard and being loud about sex life
        
        Cool to be clever but not too work hard- hide fact revised of tried hard- avoid the appearance of weakness or failure if they did badly
        
        Ladette culture and included White working class girls who are underachieving as a result
  - - - Girls would use their skills to carve out a role
        
        Fixers, seen as girls job- never leaders
        
        Boys leave this role to girls, seeing is as ‘girls’ business’, but girls and young women can become an important part of a gang’s operation, and social skills are a source of ‘street capital’, essential to survival
        
        Violence, including sexual violence, against young female gang members is common as a way of ‘keeping them in line’.