Punk ideologies

Introduction 1. Background This study will explain about women’s adaptation to masculinity in a rock subculture that operates under a patriarchal context. Patriarchy itself is a system positing that men are socially superior to women (Firestone, 1970; Glasberg & Shannon, 2010). Firestone (1970) further expounded that patriarchy is a sex-based oppression, which relies on female’s biological capacity to experience pregnancy and child birth. As such, patriarchy impedes women’s participation in all…

Feminists and scholars have divided the feminist movement 's history into three "waves". The first wave refers mostly to the women 's suffrage movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The second wave contains the ideas and actions associated with the women 's liberation movement beginning in the 1960s, campaigning for legal and social rights for women. The third wave consists of the reactions and results of the second wave’s ideas beginning in the 1990s. Although the terms…

What are the components of this multiple opportunity structures and how do these components support the use of gender norms and sexualization as a basis for political legitimacy? Sperling describes the components of the multiple opportunity structures as comprising of cultural, economic, political, international, and historical opportunity structures. First, the political opportunity structure addresses the changes made to the Russian political system in a way that created space for the…

There are three types of interviews: structured interviews, semi structured interviews, and unstructured interviews. Structured interviews are interviews that are formal such as telephone interviews, survey research and political polling. The interview is set up with a designed place ahead of time and a set of questions preplanned. Semi structured interviews are interviews that allows the interviewee to talk about a topic more “open minded” (pg. 87) rather than structured and to the point. The…

Every era is different from the one that follows after, each one creating its own impact on the society. Each and every person have their own perspective on what the 90’s was like; some remember that it was a time where people were fervent about their passions while others had an aversion to all of the change that was occurring around them. The 1990’s was the era that changed the rules and social standings of the minority creating a new way of life. In order to gain insight on the youth of…

America in the 1950s.” (Prideaux). If the professional community can see the blind spot biased critique that the author tends to hold, we can see that the author’s text cannot hold such concrete credibility in the article that we have read as those ideologies relevant to a society 57-67 years…

Salman Rushdie’s “East, West” on the other hand uses fiction and reality and blends the two in its most controversial perspective. Despite the difference in style and writing language, the two books are documented in certain themes with complementing ideologies. The main objective is to determine the similarities and the differences between the themes of innocence and feminity as portrayed by the two authors. In the beginning, Marjane portrays herself as that innocent child being brought up in a…

The term “thug” has become synonymous with young black males in the United States. This stereotype owes its origins not to rap music, but to the racialized political atmosphere of the late 1950’s (Abagond, 2015). The notion of the stereotypical black thug of today took hold in the 1990’s with the advent of gangsta rap (Abagond, 2015). As rap has grown in popularity, integrating the thug stereotype into mainstream movies, television shows and even advertisement campaigns was easy and systematic.…

It gives us so much insight into: culture, love, political ideology, etc. With that being said, Chicano literature, in particular the work of Sandra Cisneros and Gloria Anzaldua, have taught me that I am not alone in my frustrations and struggles with feeling stuck between two cultures. Their literary work has provided…

this when we take the side of the oppressor that has enslaved women with the shackles of patriarchy? How can we call ourselves “brave” when we are so quick to intimidate and outcast those who are? We cannot move forward if we are being held back by ideologies of women aren’t people. We are holding back our own progression into the future by clinging onto the rejection of something that is our God given…