UNIT N° 06

IB TOPIC: IDENTITIES
LESSON 02– EVERYDAY SUBCULTURE
Class: 4th WEEK: 22
Purpose: Compare the different subcultures in positive or negative way for society
Learning evidence: Comparative chart about Subculture: Positive or Negative for society?

LET´S OBSERVE AND READ

Now, we will read “Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution”
Activity 3: Let’s read the text and answer the question below.
LET’S PRACTICE
Activity 4: State whether the following statements are true or false and justify your answer with a relevant
brief quotation from the text. (Lines 89 – 112)

TRUE FALSE

1. A subculture is manipulated after the fanatics quit. X

Justify: None of those groups have any clue about how to extract and manipulate
any of those forms of capital.

2. Creators know how to get and exploit cultural, social and liquid capital. X

Justify: The creators generate cultural capital.

3. Sociopaths may generate some cultural capital proficiently. X

Justify: they may even do some creating—competently, if not creatively.

4. Mops mistake sociopaths for creators. X

Justify: The sociopaths look to them like creators, only better.

5. Sociopaths strip creators of their rank X

Justify: become the coolest kids in the room, demoting the creators.

A. Find the words in the text which mean the following

1. Expected predictable 6. Endorse validate

2. Sooner or later eventually X 7. At the beginning at first/initiall X

3. Alternatives variants 8. Organize put on

4. Mysterious esoteric 9. Certainly inevitably

5. Bizarre weird 10. Weaken dilute

A. Choose the correct answer from A,B,C or D.

1. The tone used in “plan to write a full obituary soon” is:
 A. Sarcastic C. benevolent

B. morose D. bitter

2. The writer thinks that Rao’s Principle is:

A. Horrible yet perceptive C. Just a theory

B. No worthy because it advocates D. Skeptical about lifecycle of subcultures

nothingness

3. “ they have to be led to the drink” (line 68) indicates that mops are:

A. Creators C. Imposters

B. Parasites D. Frauds

4. Mop ruin the subculture because they:

A. Refuse to pay subscription fees C. Think the New Thing is not for them

B. Are too attracted to the New Thing D. Remain attached to their “normal” things