WY Lecture 3
Lecture 3: After subcultures, individualization and postmodernism
The silent revolution
Results:
In all countries people born after 1945 show a priority to immaterial values
The older, the more respondents show a preference to material values.
There is a clear generational gap between the generations
Inglehart argued that economic development, cultural change, and political change go
together in coherent…
Frames of reference
Frames of reference
Generation Subculture
What ideas and values do they have? What’s their behavior?
What are they protesting against? Why so?
When did they grow up? How do they express themselves?
How do parents react? What is their social background?
What is the dominant culture they are What is the structural position they are giving
opposing to? answers to?
Whether something is a subculture of a generation does not depend of the organization or
the group itself, but of the glassed with which people look at that movement and try to
understand it.
Clarke:
First, he gives a definition of a subculture
Then, he explains how it develops
Traditional subcultural approach (new term neo-tribes didn’t work
It’s ‘resistance through rituals’ (not like a Marxist tradition: striking)
o Rituals are everything you do in life, which has to do with culture
It’s a subset of broader class cultures
o
Researchers interpret youth behaviours from these points of view
Illustration: Don Letts, Skinheads, 5:10-6:44
Lifestyle approach
Style, consumption, commodities have a meaning, but it doesn’t have to be resistant
Not fixed and class-orientated, but fluid boundaries and floating memberships
Lecture 3: After subcultures, individualization and postmodernism
The silent revolution
Results:
In all countries people born after 1945 show a priority to immaterial values
The older, the more respondents show a preference to material values.
There is a clear generational gap between the generations
Inglehart argued that economic development, cultural change, and political change go
together in coherent…
Frames of reference
Frames of reference
Generation Subculture
What ideas and values do they have? What’s their behavior?
What are they protesting against? Why so?
When did they grow up? How do they express themselves?
How do parents react? What is their social background?
What is the dominant culture they are What is the structural position they are giving
opposing to? answers to?
Whether something is a subculture of a generation does not depend of the organization or
the group itself, but of the glassed with which people look at that movement and try to
understand it.
Clarke:
First, he gives a definition of a subculture
Then, he explains how it develops
Traditional subcultural approach (new term neo-tribes didn’t work
It’s ‘resistance through rituals’ (not like a Marxist tradition: striking)
o Rituals are everything you do in life, which has to do with culture
It’s a subset of broader class cultures
o
Researchers interpret youth behaviours from these points of view
Illustration: Don Letts, Skinheads, 5:10-6:44
Lifestyle approach
Style, consumption, commodities have a meaning, but it doesn’t have to be resistant
Not fixed and class-orientated, but fluid boundaries and floating memberships
