SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Roland Barthes, Commodity Fetishism, Dick Hebdige
5 Jun 2018
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W4 - Youth Culture
Intro
Structural Functionalism:
- Youth and youth experience reflects a phase of hedonism before adulthood
- Our plae ithi youth ulture is teporary, fluid ad deoid of ritial agey ie. Ay
real worth of analysis
History
Youth Culture is shaped by two positions:
1. Youth Problem
- A series of arguments through which we see youth culture itself emerge
2. Wayward Youth
- Youth ithout a strog faily ad soial foudatio
- This oept ats i ollaoratio t polie, go’t and laws as well psychology and
sociology
Wayward Youth
Three Steps
1. City centres develop in the mid 20th century becoming more populated
2. Visible youth culture emerges as groups of youth began to congregate in city centres
3. Problems associated with city living are overlapped onto the youth now living in these
centres
- Ex. Alienation, poverty, immorality
Early Studies of Youth Culture
- Youth are argialized ad fraed as i risis
- Framed as either victims or perpetrators
- Two step Process:
1. Framing
2. Moral panic
Framing
- Doiat groups la, polie, go’t highlight speifi groups youth, iigrats,
queers) in then create a moral panic
- Process:
- A group is framed in media: represented, spoken about, argued as being ---- or ---- and
this message is transmitted in masses
- Ie. Do’t hag out ith gay people you ill get aids
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Document Summary
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