Subculture

"Some of the values that characterize police subculture, like patriotism and a dedication to creating a better society, are positive values that many Americans share." Others, like suspicion and cynicism, are not always prized by others but maybe mecessary for effective (and safe) police work. Police subculture is, the street environment, administration, other criminal justice agencies, the media, and organizational factors. Control and territoriality, use of force, suspicion, and solidarity,…

Define and give examples of the following terms and concepts: Theory of Reactive Subculture, Theory of Differential Opportunity, lower-class culture and focal concerns, the play group, gang, near group, graffiti, dyad and triad, female auxiliary, high delinquency area, gang composition, deviant subculture, social capital, delinquent subculture, social network, and gang rape. • Theory of Reactive Subculture: A group of theoretical constructs. This states the idea that misconduct is elicited in…

Speech Team as a Subculture At my high school, I was a member of the Speech Team for four years. Our team fits the definition of a subculture because of our unique cultural patterns (SOC 1001 lecture 2). By examining the cultural characteristics, material culture, and non-material culture, the Speech Team at my high school can be thoroughly evaluated as a subculture. The members of Eden Prairie High School’s Speech Team were a part of a subculture by cause of certain shared behaviors that…

IV By Chuck Klosterman There are so many inquisitive people living around the world. The majority of them usually don’t have an insight on what happens on Earth. In the book IV, Chuck Klosterman interviews many people and makes some commentaries about American culture. The book is divided into three sections; “Things that are true”, “Things that might be true”, and “Something that isn’t true.” Klosterman wants to separate these articles so he can give the audience an interesting perspective of…

Biker Boyz Critique DeWaun Bowman Methodist University The movie Biker Boyz is very powerful and it carries a strong message throughout the entire movie. It’s about the underground world of motorcycle clubs and not so legal street racing. A young man who is 18 years old named Kid (Derek Luke). Started his own motorcycle club named “Biker Boyz” after witnessing the death of his dad “Slick Will” at one of these races. He wants to be the one in charge the one everyone idealized…

This time period was soon filled with outlandish and aggressive music that allowed the people of the 70’s and 80’s to redefine themselves as well as create a new depth to the sound of music. Judith S. Baughman, author of the Master Series, writes in the article “The Punk Rock and The New Wave Movement” that “Punk was a do-it-yourself movement that was about seizing the moment, discarding history, breaking the rules, inventing new ones, and taking a stand (even a wrong one) whenever possible”…

Punk Rock Here Today Gone Tomorrow Love it; hate it, Punk Rock made its debut in the 70’s starting with a simple beat, a tap on the drums or a guitar strumming, and there it was. Punk rock is born. This rock music genre fad came to reality during a time of frustration among the young generation. Rooting in a garage rock band imagery with the deliberate cultivation of violence, deviance, loud, vulgar, and rebellious lyrics, this style of music can be distinguished as hard-edged (Charlton…

Reimagining the Past and Shaping the Future The suffix -Punk brings to mind things like costume jewelry, excessive use of gears as decoration, and pseudo-Victorian fashion, but it’s far deeper than that. There are dozens of individual group operating under the -Punk term, with Steampunk probably being the most well known. Solarpunk is a new player in the community, with its fair share of similarities and differences from the other -Punk communities. Though Steampunk and Solarpunk share a…

Punk rock is a loud and fast moving form of music that emerged in the 1970’s. It has its roots in garage rock and is generally an aggressive form of music. I chose this genre because I would hear it mentioned all the time with how it has influences in other bands that I listened to and I like their music and sound. Therefore I chose to examine the origins of punk and its influence. The genre has its roots in garage rock which came about in the 1960’s. Garage rock was a raw form of Rock and Roll…

There will never be a real rock n 'rock That might be an easy definition of Punk rock. This definition see Punk rock as an undercurrent underneath the primitive American rock 'n' roll, stretching from the myriad different versions of "Louie, Louie," which is often singing at the fun on the campus, through the artful "Psycho" (The Sonics) and "Surfin 'Bird" style polygons of the day (The Trashmen) and finally followed by many rock musicians from the sixties to the band The Stooges. This often…