Youth Culture And Deviance Behavior In Goths Gamers
Carly Cannon
Deviant Behavior
April 7, 2014
There are significant differences between different societies. In studying issues of youth culture and deviance behavior, it is important to take these differences into account. “Goths, Gamers, & Grrrls” by Ross Haenfler, discusses a wide range of youth subcultures, from British mods to recent online communities. The youth subcultures that are covered throughout the book are skinhead, punk, hip hop, hard core, heavy metal, Goths, hackers, online communities, and groups in which members pledge to preserve their sexual virginity. Subcultural approaches assume there is a common value system to deviate from, don’t explain why people decide whether or not they participate in a deviant subculture, understanding the concepts of class, race, and gender, over focus on working class males and fail to highlight deviant sub-cultures in other sections of society. …show more content…
These include different beliefs, values, attitudes, traditions, and knowledge that serves as a cohesive force that binds social actors together. In many societies including the United States; social class is lived out as differences in ethnicity. In most societies there are also significant gender differences. Each chapter discusses how different subcultures create “unwritten” rules of gender, race, etc. Racists and white supremacists throughout Europe and America have, successfully adopted the skinhead subculture with its origins in late-1960’s London. Rules regarding gender, divide masculine and feminine behaviors and those who bend or break norms of gender and sexuality are often ostracized from that particular subculture or society in general. In schools, kids are constantly being labeled whether they are “too feminine” or “too
Deviant Behavior
April 7, 2014
There are significant differences between different societies. In studying issues of youth culture and deviance behavior, it is important to take these differences into account. “Goths, Gamers, & Grrrls” by Ross Haenfler, discusses a wide range of youth subcultures, from British mods to recent online communities. The youth subcultures that are covered throughout the book are skinhead, punk, hip hop, hard core, heavy metal, Goths, hackers, online communities, and groups in which members pledge to preserve their sexual virginity. Subcultural approaches assume there is a common value system to deviate from, don’t explain why people decide whether or not they participate in a deviant subculture, understanding the concepts of class, race, and gender, over focus on working class males and fail to highlight deviant sub-cultures in other sections of society. …show more content…
These include different beliefs, values, attitudes, traditions, and knowledge that serves as a cohesive force that binds social actors together. In many societies including the United States; social class is lived out as differences in ethnicity. In most societies there are also significant gender differences. Each chapter discusses how different subcultures create “unwritten” rules of gender, race, etc. Racists and white supremacists throughout Europe and America have, successfully adopted the skinhead subculture with its origins in late-1960’s London. Rules regarding gender, divide masculine and feminine behaviors and those who bend or break norms of gender and sexuality are often ostracized from that particular subculture or society in general. In schools, kids are constantly being labeled whether they are “too feminine” or “too