Lesson 01B2.2.1

01B2.2.1 Deviant subcultures: types Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 3

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  1. Which sociologist argued that delinquent subcultures offer a solution to status frustration?

    • Albert Cohen
    • Dick Hebdige
    • Robert Merton
    • Howard Becker
  2. What term describes the feeling of blocked opportunities experienced by working-class youths?

    • Cultural deprivation
    • Anomie
    • Status frustration
    • Focal concerns
  3. According to Cloward and Ohlin, what type of subculture emerges where organised professional crime exists?

    • Criminal subculture
    • Expressive subculture
    • Retreatist subculture
    • Conflict subculture
  4. Which Cloward and Ohlin illegitimate opportunity structure is characterised by gang violence and turf wars?

    • Magical subculture
    • Retreatist subculture
    • Criminal subculture
    • Conflict subculture
  5. What subculture do Cloward and Ohlin argue is formed by double failures who cannot access any structure?

    • Resistance subculture
    • Retreatist subculture
    • Subterranean subculture
    • Delinquent subculture
  6. Which term did Walter Miller use to describe the independent value system of lower-class males?

    • Folk devils
    • Subterranean values
    • Protestant ethic
    • Focal concerns
  7. Which of Miller's focal concerns involves a preoccupation with physical strength and masculinity?

    • Smartness
    • Toughness
    • Fate
    • Autonomy
  8. What focal concern of Miller's refers to the desire to avoid being pushed around or controlled by others?

    • Trouble
    • Excitement
    • Autonomy
    • Zenith
  9. Who applied labelling theory to argue that working-class youths are stereotyped as typical delinquents?

    • David Matza
    • Stan Cohen
    • Aaron Cicourel
    • Talcott Parsons
  10. What did David Matza call the everyday values that conventional people also engage in occasionally?

    • Master statuses
    • Subterranean values
    • Focal concerns
    • Core norms
  11. Which technique of neutralisation involves youths claiming they are defending their peer group?

    • Appeal to higher loyalties
    • Denial of victim
    • Condemning condemners
    • Denial of injury
  12. Which Marxist group studied youth subcultures through the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies?

    • Frankfurt School
    • Chicago School
    • Birmingham School
    • Fabian Society
  13. According to the Birmingham School, working-class youth subcultures act as what kind of response to capitalism?

    • Conformist compliance
    • Magical resistance
    • Economic adaptation
    • Political revolution
  14. Which subculture was analysed by Dick Hebdige as a classic example of bricolage and stylistic resistance?

    • Mods
    • Punks
    • Hippies
    • Teddy Boys
  15. What term did Dick Hebdige use to describe subcultures reusing ordinary objects to create new meanings?

    • Totemism
    • Incorporation
    • Homology
    • Bricolage
  16. What concept did Paul Willis use to describe the counter-school culture formed by working-class lads?

    • Shopfloor culture
    • The correspondence principle
    • Cultural capital
    • Restricted code
  17. What feminist critique highlighted that traditional subcultural theories largely ignored which demographic group?

    • Rural youths
    • Ethnic minorities
    • Young women
    • Middle classes
  18. Which term did McRobbie and Garber use to describe the home-based female subculture they identified?

    • Bedroom culture
    • Kitchen subculture
    • Secret sisterhood
    • Domestic resistance
  19. Which postmodernist argued that youth subcultures have fragmented into fluid, unstable lifestyle tribes?

    • John Clarke
    • Phil Cohen
    • Michel Maffesoli
    • Tony Jefferson
  20. What term did postmodernists use to describe loose youth groupings centred around shared consumer tastes?

    • Neo-tribes
    • Status groups
    • Moral panics
    • Folk devils

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