Marxist SUBCULTURAL Perspective

• Who are the Marxist subculturist thinkers?

  Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham
• According to the CCCS, what are the 2 ways that capitalism controls the maj. of the pop.?

  1. Ideological dominance through media
  2. Economic press.
• Which social group are able to defy the society's economic + ideological pressure?

  Young WC
• What kind of theory was developed at the CCCS in the 70s?

  Neo-Marxist subcultural theory
• Whose deviant behaviour was the CCCS focussed on explaining?

  Spectacular Youth Subcultures - highly visible youth subs
• What are some examples of SYSs?

  Punks, mods, rockers, teddy boys, skinheads etc.
• How did the CCCS explain the deviance of the SYSs?

  Resistance through rituals + symbols against the oppression of capitalism
• Which SYS used their style to resist capitalism + their economic situation?

  Teddy boys - wore high-class clothing from the previous era to elevate status + show contempt for class hierarchy
• Who studied the Mods?

  Hebdige
• What did Hebdige say that the Mods were trying to express?

  • Their desire for MC status
  • Their resistance against a system that had no opportunities for s. mobility
• Who studied the Skinheads?

  Clarke & Cohen
• Why did Clarke say that the Skinheads had such a distinctive style?

  To accentuate WC identity
• How did Cohen explain the Skinhead's rep. for violence + racism?

  They just wanted to defend their territory + WC roots from the economic situ. at the time
• Who studied Punks?

  Hebdige
• What did Hebdige link Punk style to?

  Anarchy
• What is anarchy?

  Absence of government
• -VE AO3: T/F: These Neo-Marxist researchers were unbiased when they were writing.

  FALSE - They were methodologically biased + used evidence selectively
• AO3: Who criticised Marxist subcultural thinkers for only looking at subs linked to class, and not others linked to gender, ethnicity, etc.? (HINT: Colour M/W)

  Blackman
• AO3: What do Interactionists argue that is drastically different from Marxists ab. deviant subs?

  • M - Youths form deviant sub.s to resist capitalism + economic/ideological press.
  • I - Deviant subs. are socially constructed by police stereotyping youths as potentially more deviant than others