Examples of subculture in the following topics:
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- A subculture is a culture shared and actively participated in by a minority of people within a broader culture.
- A culture often contains numerous subcultures.
- Some subcultures achieve such a status that they acquire a name of their own.
- Subcultures can be distinctive because of the age, ethnicity, class, location, and/or gender of the members.
- Trekkies (or fans of Star Trek) are a subculture; they share specific understandings and meanings that those outside their subculture may not understand.
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- Religious minorities could be considered subcultures.
- For example, Mormons might be considered a subculture.
- Within Mormon culture, there may be yet more subcultures (or sub-subcultures), such as those who continue to practice polygamy.
- The study of subcultures often consists of the study of symbolism attached to clothing, music, and other visible affectations by members of subcultures.
- Some subcultures achieve such a status that they acquire a name.
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- A youth subculture is group of young people defined by distinct styles, behaviors and interests.
- The study of subcultures often consists of the study of the symbolism attached to clothing, music and other visible affections by members of the subculture.
- The term "scene" can refer to an exclusive subculture or faction.
- Subcultures may also be seen as extensions of crowds.
- Discuss the definition and purpose of a subculture, especially for youth in society
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- Illegitimate opportunity structures are the rules that operate within deviant subcultures.
- A key to understanding Cowan and Ohlin's theory is the notion of subculture.
- Cowan and Ohlin asserted that subcultures have rules of their own.
- In a criminal subculture, youth learn to use crime for material gain.
- Criminal and conflict subcultures demonstrate that individuals can reject the normative means of the culture at large and still find a place within a smaller deviant subculture.
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- A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically.
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- A moral panic is a mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, poses a menace to society.
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- This is one of the earliest examples of a subcultural study that explained the organization of urban subgroups as opposed to strictly highlighting the disorganization that accompanied urbanization.
- Sociologists Park, Burgess and McKenzie, professors at the University of Chicago and three of the earliest proponents of urban sociology, developed subcultural theories, which helped to explain the role of local institutions in the formation of ties.
- Subcultural theories popularized the idea that segments of society, such as gangs and homeless populations, had internal systems of value and order.
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- This reflects an individual's ability to synthesize and extract aspects valuable to them from the multiple subcultures they belong to.
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- This reflects an individual's ability to synthesize and extract aspects valuable to them from the multiple subcultures to which they belong.
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- Counterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition.