Subculture Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
In biology, a subculture in a population of a microorganism is when one microbe colony in such a population is transferred onto blank growth medium and allowed to freely reproduce.
In sociology, a subculture is a culture or set of people with distinct behavior and beliefs within a larger culture. The essence of a subculture, that distinguishes it from other social groupings, is awareness of style and differences in style, in clothing, music or other interests.
A culture often contains numerous subcultures. Subcultures incorporate large parts of their mother cultures, but in specifics they may differ radically. Some subcultures achieve such a status that they acquire a name of their own.
Examples include:
- Fandom
- Expatriates
- Hacker
- Gamer
- Religious subcultures
- Bohemianism
- New Age culture
- High school subcultures, sometimes associated with a youth movement
- Youth movements, frequently associated with a musical style, such as
- Sexual subcultures such as
- Nudism
- "Outsider" subcultures such as
- body modification and tattoo subcultures
- Biker gangs such as the Hell's Angels
- "vampire" subculture
- Thematic subcultures
- Illegal drug subcultures
- Criminal subcultures, such as pickpockets and thieves
Hebidge considered punk subculture to share the same "radical aesthetic practices" as dada and surrealism: "Like Duchamp's 'ready mades' - manufactured objects which qualified as art because he chose to call them such, the most unremarkable and inappropriate items - a pin, a plastic clothes peg, a television component, a razor blade, a tampon - could be brought within the province of punk (un)fashion...Objects borrowed from the most sordid of contexts found a place in punks' ensembles; lavatory chains were draped in graceful arcs across chests encased in plastic bin liners. Safety pins were taken out of their domestic 'utility' context and worn as gruesome ornaments through the cheek, ear or lip...fragments of school uniform (white bri-nylon shirts, school ties) were symbolically defiled (the shirts covered in graffiti, or fake blood; the ties left undone) and juxtaposed against leather drains or shocking pink mohair tops." (p.106-12)
Sarah Thornton (1995), after Pierre Bourdieu (1986), described subcultural capital as the cultural knowledge and commodities acquired by members of a subculture, raising their status and helping differentiate themselves from members of other groups. Roe (1990) uses the term symbolic capital.
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Fiction: in the book, and later movie, The Outsiders, there are the Socs (rich teenagers) and Greasers (poor ones), named after the grease in their hair. In Grease (musical) and the song 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) the same term is used.
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