Culture

• The way of life of a society; made up of shared values, norms and belief
  
• Is not absolute, fixed and universal
• No culture is superior, neither inferior. They are merely different.
• Types of culture:

1. Popular culture
2. Mass culture
3. Subculture
4. Dominant culture
5. Folk culture
6. High culture

• A youth subculture is a youth – based culture with distinct styles, behaviour and interest.
• Why subcultures are formed? It is formed as there’s rebellious attitude.
• Social class, gender and ethnicity can be important in relation to youth subcultures.
• The features of subculture: youth subcultures are often defined or distinguishable by elements such as fashion, clothing, hairstyles and etc.
• Talcott Parsons argued that as we move from the family and corresponding values to another sphere with differing values we would experience an “ anomie situation”.
• Marxists theories account for some diversity, because they focus on classes and class-fractions rather than youth aaas a whole.
• Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson describe youth subcultures as symbolic as symbolic or ritualistic attempts to resist the power of bourgeoisie hegemony.
• Dick Hebdige describes subcultures as a reaction of subordinated groups that challenge the hegemony of the dominant culture.
• Hegemonic how one situations is more powerful than the other. E.g no matter how rich you are, we couldn’t put your car plate license the same as the royal family.