Subculture

Subculture

In sociology and cultural studies, a subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the larger culture to which it belongs.

proposed six key ways in which subcultures can be identified through their:


 * often negative relations to work (as 'idle', 'parasitic', at play or at leisure, etc.); [1]
 * negative or ambivalent relation to class (since subcultures are not 'class-conscious' and don't conform to traditional class definitions);
 * association with territory (the 'street', the 'hood', the club, etc.), rather than property;
 * movement out of the home and into non-domestic forms of belonging (i.e. social groups other than the family);
 * stylistic ties to excess and exaggeration (with some exceptions);
 * refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and massification.

[1] Such as the Gal Drifts