1. Quadrophenia
Subculture – He believes that youth subcultures are a way for young people to
challenge society and to challenge hegemony. They do this through style,
clothing, music, make up and drugs.
Stan Cohen – Came up with the idea of moral panic. Media blows things out of
proportion when something negative happens involving a subculture. A moral
panic is where a certain group is demonized and seen as a threat to social values.
Deviancy amplification is when a certain event is sensationalized in the media
and it is seen as more important and dangerous than it actually is, this can lead
to a moral panic.
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Jimmy is represented as wanting to be part of a gang. He wants to be part of the
mod culture because identity is very important to him. This is because he feels he
has no identity at home and at work as he spends his time being degraded and
getting told what to do by his parents at home and higher ups at work. This
would definitely resonate with teenagers who feel as though they are the bottom
rung of society and don’t have freedom to make their own choices. He’s also
shown wanting to be different to everyone else in society, even though he just
the same as any other mod. He also takes the mod life way too seriously, even
going as far as quitting his job to fit into the mod subculture.