Essays on Subcultures

INTRODUCTION

Criminal justice professionals and academics work to understand why some people engage in criminal behaviors and others do not. In other words, what makes a criminal into a criminal? There are many theories that have been developed to explain deviance or criminal behavior. Some believe that criminal behavior is a choice and are deserving of consequences, while others argue that some offenders are predispositioned for it; they are not entirely responsible for their actions. Two of those theories worthy of discussion are Social Control Theory and Subculture Theory. Social Control Theory argues that people turn to deviances and criminal ...

Individuals lay the basis of a society where they accept other people and live with them. Social organizations and behaviors are molded according to society and people who shape society. A subculture can be termed as the meaning of styles outlined by youth as a symbolic form of resistance. People form society after getting influenced one of seven models and subcultures happen within society as a form of resistance. The formation of subcultures does not overcome potential benefits of society, but subculture opposes to the basic ideology and social normalization. Subcultures add to the variations of any society such ...

Human personality is formed mainly through relations with other people, the community and society. The process of forming human individuality continues for the whole life. The most intensively the personality is up to the age of 18, as it is the most suitable stage of life for absorbing the knowledge and rules of behavior in the society. Human personality is a concept that expresses the social essence of the person, the complex characterizing human features, properties, relations, moral and spiritual world, formed in the course of self-development, cooperation with social communities and separate individuals. Teenagers belong to the most ...

Hebdige in his publications argues that the styles of youth subcultures challenge dominion, hegemony as well as social norms. It does this through symbolic forms of resistance which include music and clothing (Hedbige 408). In particular, he lays focus on the evolution of styles in sub cultures. These styles include rockers, punks as well as skin heads. Often, they are treated as threats to public order. Although Williams’ approach lays focus on the concept of ‘subculture’ theory as a viable way of analyzing collective identity, his analysis differ significantly from Hebdige’s approach. This is particularly evident when it ...

Question 2: Definitions of Subcultures

Undoubtedly, no particular cultural studies texts have been widely read than the Subculture books written by Dick Hebdige in 1979. Hebdige (121) defines and analyzes subcultures based on specificity and conjuncture. His definition indicates that subcultures arise from symbolic and communal engagements with a larger form of industrial culture. They are expressed as the emergence of styles and not class or age. Modzelewski and Abramson (145) outline different definitions or ideologies of subcultures that arose from Chicago School Tradition, the Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies and the Post-subcultural era. This essay attempts to understand how the definition and ...

History of Fashion

Dick Hebdige’s article “Subculture: The Unnatural Break” poses the matter of the role of subculture in a conventional society. The article indicates that media is presenting subcultures such as punk, as threatening to the traditional societal conventions, to the generally accepted sense of morality, lifestyle or fashion. The arguments that the author uses vary from references to the members of subculture as different individuals that create semantic disorders to conversion and the erasure of the “other” to social norms. The article depicts how media techniques are used to highlight a subculture as negative to social standards. Hebdige suggests ...

There are different periods in the history of countries that play more or less significance roles. No doubt that First and Second World Wars immensely influenced the life and political situations almost in every country. These were the most disastrous event and their aftermaths were often disastrous too. In spite of these tremendous periods in the world’s history there were no less and maybe, according to some views, more important period in the history of America in the twentieth century. The period of the 60s is treated now as the time of innovations in culture, science, music and ...

Introduction

People, as social creatures, tend to unite in groups that have something common: they may have a similar system of values, behavior or lifestyle that is different from the dominant culture to which they belong. In social studies, the word “subculture” refers to a part of a public group that differs from predominant society. This paper is aimed at analyzing subculture of punk, the role of media and style in punk youth subculture. From the perspective of cultural studies, a subculture is associated with a group of people that do not contradict against the values of traditional culture but ...

Many Latinos from South America, Central America, and Mexico have made decisions to either legally or illegally to immigrate into the United States of America over the past decades. Similarly, many Asian populations have migrated into the United States of America either legally or illegally. For decades, film makers have been capturing the experiences and stories of the immigrants in the United States of America. The exponential increase in the number of the immigrants over the past decades has led to the surge of high-quality documentaries, like Crossing Arizona, produced in the year 2006. In this film, varying degrees ...

(Youth Culture and Hip-hop culture)

Youth culture is the manner by which the adolescents live, and the norms, values, as well practices they share. The youth culture is different from the older generations’ culture. Like other culture, youth culture is defined by beliefs, behaviors, styles as well as interests. The youth culture emphasizes on values such as clothes, popular music, vocabulary, music, and dating. The values create the distinction between the youth culture and other cultures. In most cases, the youth culture is an improvement of the norms and values of the parents. The youths have a massive influence ...

Most would respond with a jeremiad of grief if a loved one, especially a child, was afflicted with hearing impairment. One could argue that the general population has been afflicted with an acute perception of what it means to be deaf and, therefore, often respond to it with condescension, deliberately or unwittingly. The latter response being the norm, most of society is not aware that there is an aggregate culture of people who are fully functional and completely capable of achieving the same goals and dreams that a person who is not hearing-impaired can. Moreover, the notion of the ...

The role of music in the life of American society cannot be overemphasized. Today, we are seeing, how the music made its way into all sectors of society and is wholly or partially present in the various activities of ordinary Americans. It is hard to find anyone in the US and around the world, who would not love to listen to music. Ever since the Ancient Greeks, people began knowing music not only as just a set of sounds, but as the whole phenomenon with its complicated structure, classification and other things. Throughout the conscious history, music accompanied mankind, ...

Introduction: Gay Subculture in America

Subcultures can be defined as the individual domains which fall within the canopy of a giant culture. The American society has been marked with various subcultures defined by their ethnicity, habits, rituals, age-groups, etc. However, each of the subculture is truly American in spite of their individual preferences and choices of living life. Among these various cultures, the most controversial one has been the presence of the LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, and Transgender) community members. However, the term ‘Gay’ stands as the community identity for this entire subculture because a lot of upheavals have occurred in the American Socio-political ...

Introduction

When people live in a society, they are imparted with specific values and norms which shape their understanding of different things. One of the unique understanding that people develop is their notion of how they expect the government to work. They also develop unique belief on what they expect the political system to do for them (Roskin, et al. 106). These beliefs towards the government or the political system that individuals of a given society develop are what are referred to as the political culture of a nation. The political culture varies from one nation to another. There are ...

Introduction

Australia is one of the many countries in which moral panics have resulted to elevated racism. The concerns about crime and the fear of crime in many Australian cities including Sydney have greatly shaped lifestyles and have influenced the qualities of life. It is evidently that crime in many Australian cities is continually being linked to immigrants and other ethnic minorities. In Australia, in the recent years, the issue of crime committed by ethnic minorities and immigrants has been the subject of many media headlines and has greatly shaped policies, both domestic and international. The 9/11 attacks in the ...

Organization Behaviour

1 Task 2 - Analyse the scenario Motivation is the force that drives people into action and encourages them to exert more effort towards carrying out something. Employees who are well motivated are more comfortable and will have feelings of happiness and fulfilment. Johansson and Heide (2008) points out that besides, being well motivated workers tend to produce high-quality results and are more productive than their counterparts. In the case study, the workforce is less. They are overwhelmed in the course of their duty. They are not able to work overtime because their terms of service are contractual. The ...

In a sense, any rock music is revolutionary. By its very beat and sound it has always instinctively rejects restrictions and celebrates freedom and sexuality. At first, this music was not taken seriously by anyone. It was thought that this is another fashion that will soon disappear, as it was the case with charleston, boogie-woogie and twist. But this music very fast “won” the world. In the development of the music of the late 1960s trends towards an increase of its role in society, characteristic for the 1960s, manifested especially evidently: from another means of entertainment rock music through ...

Abstract

The Ritz-Carlton utilizes the organizational cultures and ethical values that guide the employees and managers' behaviors. The organization also has a team-oriented culture that ensures service values nurture a collaborative atmosphere. This study also found out that Ritz-Carlton hotel has a strong culture, which is reflected by shared organizational culture that is required for a running organization. As a subsidiary of the Marriott International Inc., the company sticks to the uncompromising legal and high ethical standards that guide the company towards the right channel of conducting business. The study concludes by identifying culture and laws as the main sources ...

Introduction.

The end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s was a period which saw a completely new wave of subcultures that turned London and New York into a haven of eccentrics. Through hardship and recession, the youth of that time rose up and created a change of the face of partying into a spectacle that was completely new and revolutionary; it later become unheard and forgotten in the current days. Originating from the glam and punk rock movements and Andy Warhol’s death, the Club Kid scene led to the rise of many big names such as ...

In a sense, any rock music is revolutionary. By its very beat and sound it has always instinctively rejects restrictions and celebrates freedom and sexuality. At first, this music was not taken seriously by anyone. It was thought that this is another fashion that will soon disappear, as it was the case with charleston, boogie-woogie and twist. But this music very fast “won” the world. In the development of the music of the late 1960s trends towards an increase of its role in society, characteristic for the 1960s, manifested especially evidently: from another means of entertainment rock music through ...

It has always been innate for people to group themselves together based on a certain attribute, such as life philosophy, religion, lifestyle and the like. Once a group has been formed, the group members itself will establish characteristics that will make them identifiable from the popular crowd, a quality that will make them ‘stand out’, so to speak. The members will then conform their personality, self-image and eventually, identity in order to fit in with these perceived defining qualities. This is the process in which as subculture is formed. With this in mind, a subculture can be defined as ...