Subcultures

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king-class youth and Negro—invites identification and even when this identity is repressed or openly resisted, black cultural forms continue to exercise a major determining influence over the development of each subcultural style” (Hebdige 442). He is saying they are responding to historical events happening around them. History is something that is changing daily. Time goes by, and history is transformed, as well as subcultures. According to Hebdige, “The ways in which class was lived, however—the forms in which the experience of class found expression in culture—did change dramatically. The advent of the mass media, changes in the constitution of the family, in the organization of school and work, shifts in the relative status or work and leisure, all served to fragment and polarize the working—class community, producing a series of marginal discourses within the broad confines of class experience.” Overtime with all these things our subcultures are transformed.
Subcultures relationship to the parent’s culture is a direct relationship. It is developed out of what is available from the parent’s culture. It is like a learned behavior. The cultures are responding to what previously has happened to, or occurred in the parents’ culture. �...