Week 7 – Barker Chapter 13

Cohen’s critique of CCCS’s “Resistance trhough Rituals” seems warranted.  While it seems clear that there is some element of resistence and intentionality in stylistic choice on bricolage, I do wonder if the use of these symbols is as active of a process as suggested by thHall and Jefferson.  I affirm Cohen’s critque, as paraphrased by Barker:

Style is over-inflated as resistance while resistance is reduced to questions of style.

The attempt to give meaning to all forms of stylistic expression may under-credit the novelty of genuine resistance and, at the same time, fail to take into account the arbitrariness of stylistic trends.