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Youth subcultures - Coggle Diagram
Youth subcultures
Key definitions
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Norms - The rules or expectations that determine and regulate appropriate behaviour within a culture
Values - Cultural standards that indicate the general good deemed desirable for organised social life
High Culture - Cultural products and activities with a very high status, often associated with the upper class
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Consumer Culture - A culture in which consumption is used to construct identities encouraged by the media
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Global culture - A culture in which cultural products and activities are the same in many other countries, with global brands replacing national distinctiveness
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Intracultural diversity - The idea that a wider culture contains different subcultures meaning they have a variety of different norms and values
Socialisation
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Mulvey - ‘Male Gaze’ - Camera films from a males’ perspective to assess the woman's body and levels of attractiveness
Copycat - An area of concern often expressed is that the media has an influence on in society as behaviour is copied
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Harris - ‘The nurture assumption’ - Peer pressure - teenagers try to be different from adults and do things an adult wouldn’t do. Peers have more of an influence than family
Lees - The pressure on teenage girls by peers - double standards are applied to sexual behaviour ie a promiscuous girl would be named as a ‘slag’ but boy a ‘legend’
Sewell - Cultural comfort zones - teenagers hang around with those who are similar to them - can be a source of rebellion in order to stand out eg punks
Skelton and Francis - Observed peer groups in playgrounds - noticed girls and boys were separated and the boys dominated the space.
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Agents of socialisation - The groups or institutions that play a part in our socialisation through which we learn the norms and values of society [family, friends, media, religion, education and workplace]
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