A YOUTH SUBCULTURE

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 628.

1)Read the text and describe in a written form a familiar to you youth subculture. Make a report in class on it.

A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. Youth subcultures offer participants an identity outside of such social institutions as family, work, home, and school. Youth subcultures are meaning systems, modes of expression or lifestyles developed by groups in subordinate structural positions in response to dominant systems.

The study of subcultures often consists of the study of the symbolism attached to clothing, music, other visible affections by members of the subculture and also the ways in which these same symbols are interpreted by members of the dominant culture.

Subcultures that show a systematic hostility to the dominant culture are sometimes described as countercultures.

Youth subcultures are often defined or distinguishable by elements such as fashion, beliefs, slang, dialects, behaviours or interests. Vehicles—such as cars, motorcycles, scooters, skateboards, surf boards—have played central roles in certain youth subcultures. In the United Kingdom in the 1960s rockers, for example, were associated with motorcycles. Many youth subcultures are associated with specific music genres, and in some cases music has been the primary characteristic of the group, such as with Punks, Ravers, Metalheads, Goths, Emoes, and Indies.