SS5005 - Youth, Resistance and Social Control (2017/18)
Module specification | Module approved to run in 2017/18 | ||||||||||||
Module title | Youth, Resistance and Social Control | ||||||||||||
Module level | Intermediate (05) | ||||||||||||
Credit rating for module | 30 | ||||||||||||
School | School of Social Sciences | ||||||||||||
Total study hours | 300 | ||||||||||||
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Running in 2017/18(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) |
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Module summary
This module looks at young people as social and political actors, and uses applied sociological theory to analyse current issues relating to youth in consumer society, the strategies of adaptation and resistance, violence and gangs, subcultures and political movements, and social control. The focus will be on the UK as well as European and global issues.
Module aims
A1. To provide students with a historical, theoretical and comparative understanding of the diverse forms of youth culture and youth social organisation
A2. To explore the social origins of youth gangs and street violence
A3. To consider the key developments in political mobilisation of young people
A4. To investigate the concepts and nature of social control in relation to youth
A5. To develop confidence in use of appropriate learning, analytical and discursive skills when dealing with current youth issues
Syllabus
- Young People in a Historical Perspective
- Youth in Consumer Society
- The Chicago School: The City and Delinquent Subcultures
- Collective Violence and Gangs
- The Divided City: Danger, Violence and Seductions of Crime
- The Meanings of Youth Crime and Violence
- Youth Subcultures: Resistance through Ritual
- Neo-tribes or Subcultures
- Youth, Gangs and Violence in Post-communist Countries
- Masculinity and Gangs
- Girls in Gangs
- Ethnicity and Youth Culture: Criminalisation, Dissent and Hustling
- Postmodernity: Fragmentation, Diversity and Globalisation
- Virtual Communities
- Youth and Resistance in Late Modernity: Structure, Social Control and Social Isolation
- Youth Riots
- Political Resistance
- Zero tolerance? Youth policy in modern Britain
Learning and teaching
Teaching will comprise weekly lectures followed by exercises and reflexive discussion in seminars. Teaching will be informed by research and scholarly activities of the tutors.
Learning: Learning will be supported by the Weblearn site for the module which will include all the teaching materials and guidance for assessment.
The students will be encouraged to engage with contemporary issues and follow the current debates in the media. This will be supported by Weblearn-based materials and forums.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
(LO1) Outline the key perspectives in sociology surrounding the nature of youth cultural and political formations
(LO2) Identify and analyse the social processes leading to youth gangs and violence.
(LO3) Critically assess current youth policies and programmes.
Assessment strategy
The group presentation will assess the students’ understanding of the historical and social dimensions of youth cultural and political formations. It will be take place in week 12. The essay of 3000 words will assess the students’ ability to critically analyse the causes of youth violence and gangs and the political responses to them (due in Week 29).
Bibliography
Burke, R.H. (2016) Young People, Crime and Justice, 2nd edition, Routledge
Collins, R. (2008), Violence, Princeton University Press
France, A. (2007) Understanding Youth in Late Modernity, Open U.
Goffman, A. (2014), On the Run, Chicago U. Press
Goldson, B. (2011) Youth in Crisis? Gangs, Territoriality and Violence, Routledge
Muncie, J. (2009) Youth and Crime, Sage
Ray, L. (2011) Violence and Society. London: Sage Publications Ltd
Stephenson, S. (2015) Gangs of Russia, Cornell University Press.
Winlow, S., Hall, S., Briggs, D and Treadwell, J. (2015), Riots and Political Protest, Routledge.