Rejecting the rejecters: The latent effect of policy on subculture

<p>Specifically, this thesis is a look into rap lyrics, subculture, policy, reflexivity and the formation of the social self. In a broader vision, this thesis attempts to mold a theoretical pathway that illuminates where our cultural products "come from," not historically, but socially. Through the vehicle of rap lyrics I attempt to show that there is a historical and social structure that molds, limits and contains the very possibility of what music and lyrics can come to be. I try to show that the decisions we make on a national scale effects groups which have little political power, effectively recreating their realities, cultures and their value systems. Policy becomes a mechanism, which I call rejection, that forces people to live certain ways consequently reforming their social mapping, and by extension, their social selves. I then utilize auto-ethnography to show that, perhaps, rejection is a part of all us, and that it never quite escapes our cultural products, our work and those things we create. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Justice Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

Eastern Kentucky University

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Higgins, Ethan Maxwell

• Criminal Justice
• Culture
• Policy
• Rap
• Society
• Sociology
• Criminology
• Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2013 Ethan Maxwell Higgins

Repository record dc:identifier

https://encompass.eku.edu/etd/179

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:encompass.eku.edu:etd-1177