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    Identify and explain two ways which youth subcultures are influenced by social class.(17) One example if subculture that is influenced by social class are punks.they have been studied by Dick Hebdige. Punks have emerged in the 1970’s their subculture was a response to dominance of the media. Punks were a working class subculture and they were frustrated with the economy and social situations. Hebdige came up with the term ’bank generation’ to describe that the only thing they had in common

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    To What extent are subcultures such as Goth‚ Dance or Hip Hop‚ types of consumption of media popular culture‚ rather than styles of resistance? One problem in analysing a type of youth culture is measuring the extent to witch it is a response to a culture deliberately manufactured for marketing and consumption of cultural products. I would say to some extent all subcultures consume part of popular culture‚ but it does vary from which culture a person is apart of‚ E.G you can look at the Goth type

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    Subcultures are small groups of people who have similar views and interests within a larger culture. Subcultures are a way of expressing one’s style‚ “an imaginary coherence‚ a clear-cut ready made identity which coalesces around certain chosen objects”‚ according to Hebdige. The punk subculture emerged from the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970’s. It was a subculture that portrayed a vibe where everything was unpleasant‚ revolting by conventional standards. This particular subculture

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    Caleb Nelson Professor Overfelt Social Movement Essay March 31‚ 2013 Straight Edge: Subculture and Social Movement In the early 1980’s‚ a hardcore punk band called Minor Threat wrote a song called “Straight Edge”. In this song‚ front man Ian MacKaye versed lyrics about not needing drugs or any substance to live a positive lifestyle. The song lyrics marked a new beginning of a subculture consisting of youth in a punk/hardcore scene that decided to be different and go against the grain. Straight

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    The first thing we had asked each person within the two subcultures to do was to define their subculture‚ and we found a split with the complexity of the answers. Most of the respondents who were a part of the athletic subculture‚ simply gave us a simple definition of an athlete‚ someone who is a member of a sports team here at the University of Tampa‚ and we had others who expanded more on this. Some respondents said an athlete is someone who is a strong competitor and who has athletic talent and

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    Michael Benson Final Draft 11/28/11 Birth of a Subculture; Death of the Music Festival In Birth of Tragedy‚ Friedriche Nietzsche characterizes ancient Greek Dionysian festivals to be “centered in extravagant licentiousness…[where] the most savage natural instincts were unleashed” (Nietzsche 39). Music‚ orgies‚ excess drinking‚ and indulgences thrived during these fests. Ancient Greek sects craved these festivals and counted down the days until they could partake in the debauchery (Nietzsche 39)

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    This fieldwork took place outside the University of Wisconsin-Madison College library. It is regarded as a smoking and recreational area with garbage bins located surrounding the library entrance. Smokers take the garbage bins as ashtrays to discard their cigarette butts. Most people who smoke there are those who take breaks while studying at college library. It is noticeable that at times‚ smokers who are friends or maybe strangers will “unite” with two to seven people to smoke. This field study

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    to it. The Car Guy culture can be split into different subcultures; Muscle cars‚ sports cars‚ classic cars‚ and foreign cars. I will be directed

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    Martin 1  Tiffany Martin  19 November‚ 2014  Professor Kelli Gilbert  Prejudice & Discrimination      Domestic Violence       Domestic  Violence  Against  Women  is  a  global  issue  reaching  across  national  boundaries  as  well  as  socio­economic‚  cultural‚  racial  and  class  distinctions.  It  is  a  problem  without   frontiers.  Not only  is the problem widely  dispersed  geographically‚  but  its  incidence is  also  extensive‚ making it a typical and accepted behavior. Only recently

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    Mini-Ethnography Assignment Part Four - Analysis Paper Juicing subculture of Nectar’s Juice Bar clients Drinking the suitable fruit and vegetable juices has shocking benefits regarding our health. We already know that eating fresh fruits or vegetables is the greatest process to gain all its advantages‚ but the majority of us do not eat sufficiency of vegetables‚ specifically when you hear about green vegetables. Therefore‚ juicing is the quickest method to obtain plenty of vitamins into the human’s

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