theories of subcultures

• functionalism

  • skills for life
• parsons

  • minimises social distruption
• eidenstadt

  • express frustration without social order
• functionalism eval

  • ethnocentric
• marxism

  • hegemony
  • reaction to decline in wc communities
• cohen

  • skinheads racist due to immigration
  • reaction to social change
• feminism

  • express femininity
• thornton

  • subcultural capital
  • girls invest time to school
  • boys invest time to going out
• mcrobbie

  • bedroom culture
• reddington

  • active female members
  • eg vivienne westwood
• feminism eval

  • stereotypes
• postmodernism

  • empowerment
• johal

  • hyperethnic style
• thornton

  • subcultural capital
  • can decide whats in and out
• nayak

  • white youth influenced by black
  • cultural hybridity
• postmodernism eval

  • culturally appropriates