Thursday 27 January 2011

1. Are there any cultural or fashion movements taking place in Britain now, that you think would be strong enough to form a 'collective identity'.
The main social groups of today seem to be 'chavs' and 'emos', like the 'mods' and 'rockers', these groups seem to have a great rivalry and don't tend to interact with one another.  We feel these are strong enough to form collective identities, because the stereotypical views of said apposing groups, differ so much from one another that they form very cut off groups or 'cliques', e.g. Fashion, music, attitudes, values and class.
     The characters from the film 'Fish Tank' are a good example of how sections of society- in this case lower class- act in a certain way and have similar interests. An example of 'acting in a certain way' in the film is when she has intercourse with her mothers boyfriend, she feels it is an okay thing to do as this is what she has been lead to believe by the people surrounding her. This is almost an exact opposite when looking at the film 'An Education' as they all are brought up to go to university and to
2. Argue ways that you could relate each theorists arguments to one of our case study texts

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