Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Marxist explanations of youth subcultures
- Resistance against the crisis of capitalism
- Hall and Jefferson
- Subcultures could reject and resist the dominant, capitalist culture. Reacting to the crisis of capitalism
- Teddy Boys
- Hall
- Hippies
- Youth subcultures provide a magical solution to their members
- Brake
- magical solution to societies social problems
- Punks
- Youth subcultures emerge due to exaggeration of working class style
(imaginary solution)
- offered an imaginary solution to social problems by gaining status,
protecting territory and recreating community
- Skinheads
- Evaluation
- Ignores ethnicity and resisting racism
- Assumes all youth subcultures are working class