Subculture
In social sciences, the term of subculture is employed to define the Valeur S, the Pratique S and the Norme S particular to a social group inside a more total Culture all while being different there by secondary elements. One can also speak about Culture intimates.
It is different from the Contreculture which is frontally opposed to the dominant culture and does not aim to the inversion of the established cultural values but to define to them his clean. Thus, the Culture of youth Techno is a subculture of the Popular culture, whereas the movements Hippie and Punk are - or were - examples of contrecultures disputing values and standards of the patriarchal company of the years soixantes or consumerist of the Seventies.
The hackers form a subculture in the world of the technique.
The Gothic Movement, the Skinhead S can be regarded as musical subcultures of the culture rock'n'roll.
Locally, for little which it shows homogeneity, any social group can potentially constitute its own subculture, which it is on racial bases (the Beurs in France, Latinos in the United States), social (the Bourgeoisie generates a system of specific codes ), of age (youth teenager, in an unceasingly renewed movement of distinction compared to oldest, is in this direction fertile of specific subcultures), but also of the groups based on minority interests (the gay culture, in this direction, present of the characteristics largely shared by the various communities gay in world and always disctinctes of the dominant culture which, for its part, draws from the models that it generate).
See too
- Culture intimates
- Cultural diversity
- Manele
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