Youth, Resistance and Social Control
Youth, Consumerism and Violence
Globalisation and marginalisation
The banks, global credit and the crisis of capitalism- who pays? Cut backs, unemployment.
Employment and globalisation. Move from manufacturing to services. Full time to part time work, insecurity in the flexible labour force
Destruction of the skilled working class: the legacy of the 1980’s
Social impact on working class subculture …fragmentation, sink estates and the ‘right to buy’ policy in housing. Concentration of deprivation
Consumerism At the same time an intensification and mediatisation of consumer culture. Staging of show-biz solutions to dead ends via recognition through reality TV programmes. Magical mobility. Spectacle and self-exhibition (Debord, Society of the Spectacle)
Egoism and Instrumentalism- The lifeworld of everyday interaction has been colonised by commercial values…people more likely to use each other than value each other (Hall et al. 2008). Increasing narcissistic individualism, ‘cool’, competitiveness and violence
Homogenisation- the ironic consequence of spectacular consumerism is standardisation of identities
Crisis of Youth Theme (Margo and Dixon, 2006, IPPR)
Lack of structured activities, neighbourhood support, single parents, increasing family breakdown, gender roles- mothers not role models for girls, peer rather than family socialisation, media influence,
drugs, knife crime
Moral Panics -Acid House parties, knife crime, guns. Has the media created the crisis? Amplification spiral- more police attention, more arrests etc. (Stan Cohen- Folk Devils and Moral Panics)
Media and Violence Are the media to blame, and if so how? Effects model. Market model. Young & Cohen …’media provide a script or narrative which suggests when violence is appropriate. Dissociation from effects of violence…violence as spectacle, Iraq War, legitimate violence- heroes and villains. Impact of media on the socially deprived...greatest consumption of violent media (IPPR - Institute for Public Policy research)
Youth, Consumerism and Violence
Globalisation and marginalisation
The banks, global credit and the crisis of capitalism- who pays? Cut backs, unemployment.
Employment and globalisation. Move from manufacturing to services. Full time to part time work, insecurity in the flexible labour force
Destruction of the skilled working class: the legacy of the 1980’s
Social impact on working class subculture …fragmentation, sink estates and the ‘right to buy’ policy in housing. Concentration of deprivation
Consumerism At the same time an intensification and mediatisation of consumer culture. Staging of show-biz solutions to dead ends via recognition through reality TV programmes. Magical mobility. Spectacle and self-exhibition (Debord, Society of the Spectacle)
Egoism and Instrumentalism- The lifeworld of everyday interaction has been colonised by commercial values…people more likely to use each other than value each other (Hall et al. 2008). Increasing narcissistic individualism, ‘cool’, competitiveness and violence
Homogenisation- the ironic consequence of spectacular consumerism is standardisation of identities
Crisis of Youth Theme (Margo and Dixon, 2006, IPPR)
Lack of structured activities, neighbourhood support, single parents, increasing family breakdown, gender roles- mothers not role models for girls, peer rather than family socialisation, media influence,
drugs, knife crime
Moral Panics -Acid House parties, knife crime, guns. Has the media created the crisis? Amplification spiral- more police attention, more arrests etc. (Stan Cohen- Folk Devils and Moral Panics)
Media and Violence Are the media to blame, and if so how? Effects model. Market model. Young & Cohen …’media provide a script or narrative which suggests when violence is appropriate. Dissociation from effects of violence…violence as spectacle, Iraq War, legitimate violence- heroes and villains. Impact of media on the socially deprived...greatest consumption of violent media (IPPR - Institute for Public Policy research)
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