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Alienation Feeling of separation or isolation. Can be caused by unequal access to social rewards or privileges. Eg., friends go to Europe, but you cannot.

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2 Alienation Feeling of separation or isolation. Can be caused by unequal access to social rewards or privileges. Eg., friends go to Europe, but you cannot afford to go. Marx – Assembly line (boring manual labour) and capitalism and private property alienated workers from what they created.

3 Alienation Quite often, alienated individual will withdraw from social activities. Will likely reject the dominant culture and beliefs in society. Do inventory now

4 Subculture A small group of people within a larger group who share a common system of values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviours, and lifestyles that are different from those of the dominant culture. Two key elements: 1. deviance from the norm 2. prevalent among youth

5 Subculture Most are harmless: Vampire Extreme Sport Comic Books / Manga Hip Hop Grunge Cybergoth Punk Heavy Metal

6 Counterculture Counterculture – reject most prevalent values and most important norms of society and replace them with extreme views on violence, family, loyalty. Positive – eg., suffragettes, hippies and civil rights activists. Negative – eg., cults.


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