Working class youth who performed poorly at school formed the weakest point in the ruling classes control
Gramsci
Hegemony - the way the dominant class presents their ideologies that is seen as common sense, to subordinate classes.
Subcultures are formed as a way to resist/rebel this
Brake
Youth culture is a form of resistance to capitalism, but they do nothing to alter the power and economic differences. He argues the concept of 'magical solution' as a way out. It is just an illusion
Evaluation
Cohen - writers deliberately focused on resistance and were biased in their analysis
