Conflict subculture

(noun)

In a conflict subculture, youth learn to form gangs as a way to express frustration about the lack of normative opportunity structures in their neighborhood.

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Examples of Conflict subculture in the following topics:

  • Illegitimate Opportunity Structures: Social Class and Crime

    • In a conflict subculture, youth learn to form gangs as a way to express frustration about the lack of normative opportunity structures in their neighborhood.
    • Cowan and Ohlin asserted that subcultures have rules of their own.
    • In a conflict subculture, youth learn to form gangs as a way to express frustration about the lack of normative opportunity structures in their neighborhood.
    • New initiates into the gang will learn how to engage in conflict or gang activities to express frustrations by watching gang leadership.
    • Criminal and conflict subcultures demonstrate that individuals can reject the normative means of the culture at large and still find a place within a smaller deviant subculture.

  • Values

    • This reflects an individual's ability to synthesize and extract aspects valuable to them from the multiple subcultures to which they belong.
    • If a group member expresses a value that is in serious conflict with the group's norms, the group's authority may encourage conformity or stigmatize the non-conforming behavior of its members .

  • Subcultures & Countercultures

    • A subculture is a culture shared and actively participated in by a minority of people within a broader culture.
    • A culture often contains numerous subcultures.
    • Some subcultures achieve such a status that they acquire a name of their own.
    • Subcultures can be distinctive because of the age, ethnicity, class, location, and/or gender of the members.
    • Trekkies (or fans of Star Trek) are a subculture; they share specific understandings and meanings that those outside their subculture may not understand.

  • Subcultures

    • Religious minorities could be considered subcultures.
    • For example, Mormons might be considered a subculture.
    • Within Mormon culture, there may be yet more subcultures (or sub-subcultures), such as those who continue to practice polygamy.
    • The study of subcultures often consists of the study of symbolism attached to clothing, music, and other visible affectations by members of subcultures.
    • Some subcultures achieve such a status that they acquire a name.

  • Student Subcultures

    • A youth subculture is group of young people defined by distinct styles, behaviors and interests.
    • The study of subcultures often consists of the study of the symbolism attached to clothing, music and other visible affections by members of the subculture.
    • The term "scene" can refer to an exclusive subculture or faction.
    • Subcultures may also be seen as extensions of crowds.
    • Discuss the definition and purpose of a subculture, especially for youth in society

  • Sociological Perspectives on Urban Life

    • This is one of the earliest examples of a subcultural study that explained the organization of urban subgroups as opposed to strictly highlighting the disorganization that accompanied urbanization.
    • Sociologists Park, Burgess and McKenzie, professors at the University of Chicago and three of the earliest proponents of urban sociology, developed subcultural theories, which helped to explain the role of local institutions in the formation of ties.
    • Subcultural theories popularized the idea that segments of society, such as gangs and homeless populations, had internal systems of value and order.
    • The theory is essentially an extended metaphor that helps to explain how conflicting subgroups exist in shared urban spaces and systems.

  • Fads

    • A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically.

  • Values as Binders

    • For example, if you value equal rights for all and you work for an organization that treats some employees markedly better than others, this may cause internal conflict.
    • This reflects an individual's ability to synthesize and extract aspects valuable to them from the multiple subcultures to which they belong.
    • If a group member expresses a value that is in serious conflict with the group's norms, the group's authority may carry out various ways of encouraging conformity or stigmatizing the non-conforming behavior of its members.

  • Conflict Theory

    • Provide an overview of conflict theory, including its most prominent theorists.

  • Role Conflict

    • Role conflict describes the conflict between or among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses held by one individual.
    • Role conflict describes a conflict between or among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses fulfilled by one individual.
    • The most obvious example of role conflict is work/family conflict, or the conflict one feels when pulled between familial and professional obligations.
    • In other words, they experience role conflict.
    • Individual personality characteristic conflicts can arise when "aspects of an individual's personality are in conflict with other aspects of that same individual's personality. "