youth subcultures
Teenage identity movements
Youth subcultures are distinctive social groups formed by young people around shared interests, styles, music, or values that set them apart from mainstream culture.
Punks, goths, mods, skinheads, hippies, and ravers each developed recognizable aesthetics, slang, and gathering places.
These groups often signal rebellion or identity-seeking during adolescence: She documented punk and hip-hop youth subcultures in 1980s New York.
The term appears frequently in sociology and cultural studies.
- punk rockStripped-down aggressive rock genre
- mosh pitAggressive dancing crowd area
- rave cultureElectronic dance music subculture
- house musicRepetitive electronic dance genre
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
zines · garage band · hip-hop · skateboarding · skate park · streetwear · dress code · goth · graffiti art · underground scene · counterculture · alternative lifestyle · punk fashion · riot grrrl · indie music · rebellion · tattoos · breakdancing
- youthchild, adolescents, kid, coming-of-age, teenagers
youth subculturesbourgeois society
Commercial class's social system
mass culture · dominant culture · suburbia · corporate culture · normcore
youth subculturesdominant culture
Society's prevailing belief system
corporate culture · monoculture · high culture · civic institutions