HIS 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Capital, Highway Patrol, Watts Riots
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His 105 w3: how and why did the trucker subculture built around cb radio become a mainstream fad among middle-class white men in the. A subculture is a group or community that deviates from social norms, however can exist within mainstream culture (unlike counter-culture, not necessarily against the mainstream). The cb radio was introduced in the late 1940s but was not widely known until the. The radio united truck drivers by allowing them to communicate. They had their own language that was not accessible to outsiders. The slang the originated from african-american culture became integrated into trucker culture. This went from an unpopular subculture to popular culture of a larger group that was associated with the oil embargo. Truckers went on strike, raising awareness of their subculture (they were able to strike due to the subculture the ability to communicate). They demonstrated fragilities that made people nervous for example the white american males.
