SOC 101LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dick Hebdige, Counterhegemony, Bricolage
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For this reason the dominant culture will move against a particular counterculture in order to affirm its own core values. For example, the mormons in the 1800s challenge the value of monogamy. Subculture can live within dominant society or outside of it: Subculture a total institution-a social space in which members live and work with like minded people-cut off from the wider society. Subculture in operation in society-the members share distastes with dominant societal norms but remain operational with the wider society(fight chus) Birmingham school of culture study or more generally, british culture study, dick hebdige wrote a seminal work, subculture: the meaning of style : sunculture group form a revolve the contradictions of the parent or dominant culture. Where parent cultures no longer provide workable ideology for the next generation. Form the greek term senior sign (here sign has specialized meaning referring to our social and cultural vehicles for significance or meaning )