Are You Kynd? Conformity and Deviance Within the Jamband Subculture

The Neutralization and Denial of Sexual Violence in College Party Subcultures

“…Studies of weight-loss group members and Internet users found meaningful variation in subculturally relevant concepts (like "cybersex" and "slender woman," respectively; Graor 2008; King 2001King , 2008. Hunt (2010) found that participants in a jam band subculture who had more friends and emotional investment in the subculture rated jam band-relevant behaviors (like "barter" and "follow a band") more positively on evaluation and potency. Friedkin and Johnsen (2003) suggest that this subcultural variation in EPA ratings exists because individuals are influenced by observation of and contact with significant others.…”

“…This discounts how experiences prior to those six months may have shaped their survey responses and simplifies the effect of subcultural participation on meaning and action. An examination of not only categorical membership but the frequency of contact and number and nature of social ties to that subculture, such as examined by Hunt (2010), could better reveal variation in attitudes and behavior. It would also have been helpful to have individual measures of attendance at parties hosted by athletic teams and at parties hosted by fraternities.…”

Subculture, Sociology of

“…Although some scholars have continued to apply the more general definition of subculture in their work on youth subcultures (e.g., Hunt, 2008Hunt, , 2010Latysheva, 2011), and especially in examinations of subcultures not associated exclusively with youth (Lieske, 2004;Spencer, 1997), after the introduction of the notion of youth subcultures as 'cultures of resistance,' this more specified definition has dominated the subculture literature and much of the critique of the notion of subculture since then is a response to this more specific usage (e.g., Crosset and Beal, 1997;Miles, 2000;Straw, 1999). Muggleton and Weinzierl (2003), for example, question the validity of this approach in a postmodern world, and champion "a more pragmatic approach compared to the romanticism of the CCCS" (p. 4).…”

Back to the Future: 25 Years of Research in Affect Control Theory

“…Thomassen (2002) studied sentiment change in Alcoholic Anonymous; King (2001King ( , 2008 connected Internet cultures with social sentiments for Internet identities and behaviors. Hunt (2008Hunt ( , 2010 studied involvement, identity-roles, conformity, and deviance in Jamband subcultures. And, Sewell and Heise (2010) explored the copresence of Black and White cultures in the United States using 1970s data on cultural sentiments.…”

“…also applied affect control theory to show how the willful exposure to pain in religious and sexual contexts can be rendered into a positive affective experience. Thomassen's (2002) study of Alcoholics Anonymous and Hunt's (2010Hunt's ( , 2012 study of Jamband subculture also represent studies in deviance. (2000) identified three deficits in the social cognition approach to stereotyping and intergroup relations in psychology that can be corrected by an affect control theory approach, and conducted three studies based on intergroup attitudes for Canadian regional identities to substantiate this claim.…”