Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ingroups And Outgroups, Body Modification, 18 Months
25 Apr 2018
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Subcultures: firth talks about the sociology of pop-music. What are subcultures: general characteristics, people are in contact with one another, suffer a common fate, have common interests, want to continue behavior that larger society labels as deviant, want to avoid punishment. Theory of deviant subcultures: rubington, emergence of subcultures, feeling rejected, generate alternative group leading to labeling. Individuals will feel rejected, and then they will generate an alternative group. Often, these groups will generate non-utilitarian behaviors; reaction formation. Reaction formation if the world says x, we are going to do y; flipping the values of the larger society. Rubington: types of deviants, solitary deviants, those who act alone & do not share their stigma with others. [alder & alder]: solitary deviants are the loners, the lonely crowd, and their behavior is private, without social support. They are often much more tied to the dominant society, and exhibit much more ambivalence toward their own behavior they drift between conventional and deviant.
