Say What ... "Woke" an American Subculture in the Social Imagination?

As a sociologist, I am a keen observer of the 'woke' society. That is, I observe, using with a trained eye, the social behavior of the masses. The best observations are first hand of course; but, its also acceptable to watch television sitcoms, the news, or look at family photos and selfies posted on Facebook etc.

And, its gets really interesting when you observe large numbers of people (creating groups) across the nation doing things or some things that once were considered improper or unacceptable or representative of treasonous behavior as belong to Nazism and or Communism. 

Now, back in the day, this was usually called - forming deviant behaviors. Such deviance was largely due to dysfunctional development somewhere along the line and or criminal predispositions.

Now, to put it more gently... perhaps, we could recognize such forming deviant groups as curiously appearing subcultures. A smallish group of people (not tiny) that start to act/live according to their own drum beat so to speak... and suddenly it catches on as it strangely makes a favorable impression on the ignorant and or poorly socialized and educated. We will call them the 'woke'. 

Ironically, they haven't been woke to anything except mediocrity, slobbery, entitlements, laziness, ignorance; and moreover, what they think it means to be a thinking, logical, rational, intelligent, wise, conservative and properly educated individual is hogwash because they are 'woke' to all that...

Leaving that aside 'woke', let's look at what the experts say about subcultures. Well... subculture theory was first developed by sociology scholars at the Chicago School in the 1920s. The Chicago School explored the existence of deviant behavior and discussed deviance as a product of social problems within society.

Basically, according to them (the woke as a subculture), the only real social problems are with people who think that God exists, who appeal to just laws and rules, realize that property tax are necessary, that take a stand for life in the womb, that vote in a republic because it really is representative of democratic government and capitalism does stand for the free market. 

Not only that, the woke subculture also has a problem with the course of history as its been written, they don't really understand science though they applaud it as a god. They don't realize that science is only what men make of it, they don't know that libraries do exist for all citizens to use, and they are totally unaware that there is enough food to go around, that skin color is only skin deep, that animals are not people and real people can't pretend to be animals. Obesity is a disease and its therefore not healthy.

Unfortunately, even though a small number of sociologists’ continue to study subcultures in order to uncover why subcultures form, why subculturists choose to engage in deviant group behavior, and what subcultural activity can tell us about society as a whole, the woke subculture completely rejects this and says its not reflective of what is really going on.

 

 

 

*Online Source ~ https://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultural-theory-and-theorists/what-is-a-subculture/