People of a subculture are part of a larger culture but also share a specific identity within a smaller group. Thousands of subcultures exist within Canada and the United States. Ethnic and racial groups share the language, food, and customs of their heritage. Other subcultures are united by shared experiences. Biker culture revolves around a dedication to motorcycles. The body modification community embraces aesthetic additions to the human body, such as tattoos, piercings, and certain forms of plastic surgery.
In Canada and the United States, adolescents often form subcultures to develop a shared youth identity. Alcoholics Anonymous offers support to those suffering from alcoholism. But even as members of a subculture band together, they still identify with and participate in the larger society. Skinny jeans, chunky glasses, and T-shirts with vintage logos—the American hipster is a recognizable figure in the modern United States.
Based predominately in metropolitan areas, sometimes clustered around hotspots such as the Williamsburg neighborhood in New York City, hipsters define themselves through a rejection of the mainstream. As a subculture, hipsters spurn many of the values and beliefs of U.
While hipster culture may seem to be the new trend among young, middle-class youth, the history of the group stretches back to the early decades of the s. Where did the hipster culture begin?
In the early s, jazz music was on the rise in the United States. The hipster movement spread, and young people, drawn to the music and fashion, took on attitudes and language derived from the culture of jazz. Unlike the vernacular of the day, hipster slang was purposefully ambiguous.
By the s, the jazz culture was winding down and many traits of hepcat culture were becoming mainstream.
A new subculture was on the rise. They were writers who listened to jazz and embraced radical politics. They bummed around, hitchhiked the country, and lived in squalor.
The lifestyle spread. Women wore black leotards and grew their hair long. It too focused on breaking social boundaries, but it also advocated freedom of expression, philosophy, and love. It took its name from the generations before; in fact, some theorists claim that Beats themselves coined the term to describe their children. Although contemporary hipsters may not seem to have much in common with s hipsters, the emulation of nonconformity is still there.
In , sociologist Mark Greif set about investigating the hipster subculture of the United States and found that much of what tied the group members together was not based on fashion, musical taste, or even a specific point of contention with the mainstream. Much as the hepcats of the jazz era opposed common culture with carefully crafted appearances of coolness and relaxation, modern hipsters reject mainstream values with a purposeful apathy.
Young people are often drawn to oppose mainstream conventions, even if in the same way that others do. The movement peaked in the Summer of Love and subsided by the mid 70s. They were strongly against the Vietnam war and often took psychedelic drugs like LSD and mushrooms.
Hackers are a new media subculture built around gaining access to hidden corners of the internet and suppressed online data. They exist upon a spectrum of illegal hackers gaining data for nefarious means, through to hackers working for companies or governments to stress test security software.
New age spirituality emerged as a spiritual and religious subculture in the s. It is highly eclectic without a central unifying doctrine. However, it is often characterized by a holistic understanding of divinity similar to pantheism and belief in the ability to communicate with angels and the afterlife. Surf culture existed as a small sub-culture throughout the 20th Century, but boomed in the s in Southern California. There are sub-sets of this cultural grouping, such as big wave surfers and ocean environmentalism.
A common trope in surf culture is territorialism, with surfers laying claim to certain surf breaks as their own. This culture is also visible in Hawaii and Australia. Similar to surf culture, ski bum culture is predominantly found in the Alps in Europe and Rockies in North America. Ski bums and surfer culture overlap, with the cultures dovetailing between winter and summer months. Hipsters were a sub-culture in the s, but made a resurgence in the early 21st Century. It is characterized by counter-cultural fashion, including wearing clothing and stylings ironically.
Full beards, twirled mustaches, big glasses, bicylces and skinny jeans are common. While intended to be counter-cultural, the fashion is derided for its internal consistency and conformism, and was quickly co-opted into the fashion mainstream of the s. Cosplay events such as Comicon are world-wide annual celebrations of this subculture. Steampunk is associated with art, fashion and literature that is retrofuturistic. The fashion combines Victorian and industrial era iconography such as gears and steam powered machinery with futuristic science fiction.
Steampunk has significant overlaps with cosplay due to the strong fan dress-up culture. Graffiti subculture is an underground counterculture with eclectic members. It ranges from gangs making their marks on public infrastructure to lay claim to territory, through to legitimized graffiti art commissioned by councils and landowners. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, questioning and 2-Spirit sexualities in Indigenous North American culture are central to the movement.
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Gina Marchetti December Jump Cut Based predominately in metropolitan areas, sometimes clustered around hotspots such as the Williamsburg neighborhood in New York City, hipsters define themselves through a rejection of the mainstream. As a subculture, hipsters spurn many of the values and beliefs of U. While hipster culture may seem to be the new trend among young, middle-class youth, the history of the group stretches back to the early decades of the s.
Where did the hipster culture begin? In the early s, jazz music was on the rise in the United States. The hipster movement spread, and young people, drawn to the music and fashion, took on attitudes and language derived from the culture of jazz. Unlike the vernacular of the day, hipster slang was purposefully ambiguous. In the s, U. Photo courtesy of William P. By the s, the jazz culture was winding down and many traits of hepcat culture were becoming mainstream. A new subculture was on the rise.
They were writers who listened to jazz and embraced radical politics. They bummed around, hitchhiked the country, and lived in squalor.
The lifestyle spread. Women wore black leotards and grew their hair long. As the Beat Generation faded, a new, related movement began. It too focused on breaking social boundaries, but it also advocated freedom of expression, philosophy, and love. It took its name from the generations before; in fact, some theorists claim that Beats themselves coined the term to describe their children. Although contemporary hipsters may not seem to have much in common with s hipsters, the emulation of nonconformity is still there.
In , sociologist Mark Greif set about investigating the hipster subculture of the United States and found that much of what tied the group members together was not based on fashion, musical taste, or even a specific point of contention with the mainstream. Much as the hepcats of the jazz era opposed common culture with carefully crafted appearances of coolness and relaxation, modern hipsters reject mainstream values with a purposeful apathy.
Young people are often drawn to oppose mainstream conventions, even if in the same way that others do. Ironic, cool to the point of noncaring, and intellectual, hipsters continue to embody a subculture, while simultaneously impacting mainstream culture.
As the hipster example illustrates, culture is always evolving. Moreover, new things are added to material culture every day, and they affect nonmaterial culture as well. Cultures change when something new say, railroads or smartphones opens up new ways of living and when new ideas enter a culture say, as a result of travel or globalization.
There are two ways to come across an innovative object or idea: discover it or invent it. Discoveries make known previously unknown but existing aspects of reality.
In , when Galileo looked through his telescope and discovered Saturn, the planet was already there, but until then, no one had known about it. When Christopher Columbus encountered America, the land was, of course, already well known to its inhabitants. For example, new foods such as potatoes and tomatoes transformed the European diet, and horses brought from Europe changed hunting practices of Native American tribes of the Great Plains.
Inventions result when something new is formed from existing objects or concepts—when things are put together in an entirely new manner.
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