FAMST 192CT Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Juvenile Delinquency, Working Class Culture, Dada
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Part 1 (lecture 7. 1: keep in mind: Arnold"s views on culture and the working class ("the populace") Hall"s notion of popular culture as a battlefield and arena for social struggle. Early and mid-20th century problematization of juvenile delinquency. Rather than stigmatizing them as dysfunctional, outsiders sought to understand how the social habits, choices, and practices of jazz musicians + marijuana smokers involved the active adoption of alternative value systems. Sought to understand how social habits involved the active and knowing adoption o alternative value systems. Not thinking about these groups of people as problems at all. Interested in values and meanings within these specific communities: another sociological antecedent: stanley cohen"s folk devils and moral panics (1972) Previously discussed: break with traditional sociological approaches to subcultures appears in the early 1970s. Social-scientific methodologies give way to cultural studies methods drawing on cutting- edge literary criticism informed by marxist, freudian, and semiological/structural.
