alienation feeling of separation or isolation. can be caused by unequal access to social rewards or...
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Alienation and Subcultures
AlienationFeeling of separation or isolation.Can be caused by unequal access to social rewards or
privileges. Eg., friends go to Europe, but you cannot afford to go.
Marx – Assembly line (boring manual labour) and capitalism and private property alienated workers from what they created.
AlienationQuite often, alienated individual will withdraw from
social activities.Will likely reject the dominant culture and beliefs in
society.
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SubcultureA small group of people within a larger group who
share a common system of values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviours, and lifestyles that are different from those of the dominant culture.
Two key elements:1. deviance from the norm2. prevalent among youth
SubcultureMost are harmless:
VampireExtreme SportComic Books / MangaHip HopGrungeCybergothPunkHeavy Metal
CountercultureCounterculture – reject most prevalent values and most
important norms of society and replace them with extreme views on violence, family, loyalty.Positive – eg., suffragettes, hippies and civil rights activists.Negative – eg., cults.