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“Youth Subcultures, Class And Gender. Discuss, Drawing On The Relevant Sociological Literature In understanding youth subcultures, class and gender factors are of central importance. Firstly, what is a culture' A culture is the customs and civilisation of a particular people at a particular time. Following on from this a subculture is a social group or smaller culture contained within a larger group or culture. This essay will attempt to deal with three essential factors of a subculture, youth, gender and class, and how they effect a subculture. The particular time period and people in question is Irish and English youth subcultures in the latter part of the last century up to present day. As I defined in the opening paragraph, a culture is a distinctive structure of customs and civilisation of activities and values. “ Sociologists define culture as the values, beliefs, behaviour and material objects that constitute a people’s way of life” (Soyinka, 1991). A culture is also our social heritage, a bridge to the past and a guide to the future. Similarly subcultures “must exhibit a distinctive enough shape and structure to make them identifiably different from their ‘parent’ culture. They must be focused around certain activities, values, certain uses of material artefacts, territorial spaces etc” (The Subculture reader pg 100). subcultures, class, culture, subculture, youth, gender, tend, social, position, one, middle, material, based, working, time, problems, particular, male, females, factors, expression, delinquency, values, system, style, similar, seen, resolve, problem, people, must, members, males, key, important