Subcultures

Subcultures SUBCULTURES There are many subcultures in our society today. Subculture can be any type of culture that's been further classified by status, ethnicity, residence, religion, etc. Many theorists say that subcultures develop because of their social tensions, or they are trying to be a solution of their social problems. Other people say that subcultures develop because they are simply resisting authority, or trying to develop this certain identity by reacting to what happens around them. “They are not to be read as simply resisting hegemony or as magical resolutions to social tensions” (Hebdige 441). Hebdige says, “Subcultures form in communal and symbolic engagements with the larger system of late industrial culture; they’re organized around, but not wholly determined by, age and class, and are expressed in the creation of styles.” He is saying subcultures are expressed in a creation of styles which are produced in specific historical events, and cultural circumstances. They come out autonomous, not because they are resisting authority. Subcultures are formed by historical and ideological events, cultural circumstances, and in response to what is going on around them. Hebdige says, “Culture is ‘that level at which social groups develop distinct patterns hip, hop, subculture, subcultures, culture, hebdige, social, hip-hop, events, out, fashion, cultural, class, people, develop, around, style, own, history, historical, changing, been, adidas, ways, says, now, new, movement, made, george, different, because, youth, transformed, today