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	alterity
		Several problems in previous subculture research are discussed: (1) the confusion between subculture and subsociety, (2) the lack of a meaningful referent for subcultures, (3) the homogeneity and stasis associated with the concept, and (4) the emphasis on defining subcultures in terms of values and central themes.
		Subculture is re-conceptualized in terms of cultural spread occurring through an interlocking group network characterized by multiple group membership, weak ties, structural roles conducive to information spread between groups, and media diffusion.
		Subculturally identified females are faced with oppression by both the normative mainstream as well as the male-dominated subculture.
	www.zephoria.org /alterity/archives/cultural_studies/subcultures (4046 words)

	Subculture - MarxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Objects, practices and elements of style can be read critically just as canonical cultural works and practices can be deconstructed to reveal the power structures that underlie and inform them (8).
		He discusses one of the media's roles of cultural intervention, in both providing would-be subcultures with material symbols and their interpretations, as well as a means by which society represents, interprets and assimilates those subcultures (85).
		Subcultures are naturalized and assimilated by two overlapping methods, the commodification of subcultural forms, and the ideological “redefinition of deviant behavior by dominant groups” (94).
	classes.plannedobsolescence.net /marxwiki/index.php?title=Subculture (405 words)

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		She suggests that on a surface level, "subcultures are groups of people that have something in common with each other, which distinguishes them in a significant way from the members of other social groups" (1997, 1).
		However, she signals that what sets youth subcultures apart from other groups is the way in which commentators have seized on the notion that "'Subcultures' have come to designate social groups which are perceived to deviate from the normative ideals of adult communities" (1997, 2).
		For Hebdige, the punk subculture engaged in various "tactics" in order to transform a plethora of normal, everyday objects' meanings, and was a central process that contributed towards the active development of subcultural fashion or clothing styles, and the parallel communication of a group identity.
	www.arts.auckland.ac.nz /online/sociol331/lec0904.html (2348 words)

	kcsweetm
		There may be a similarity with classic subcultures after all in the wish to symbolise stability [Willis argued that the devotion to the British bike symbolised a resistance to the invasion of Japanese technology among bikers].
		In conclusion, the practice of actually being tattooed must be more than a commitment of fashion, or 'a tattoo-transfer, or clip-on piercing, would be as meaningful...
		The practices are best understood as body projects, but the possibilities for revision are highly limited: this may indicate 'a rejection of the ideology of social mobility which practices such as "keep-fit" vigorously pursue' (71).
	www.arasite.org /kcsweetm.html (1152 words)

	Negus Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Subcultural theory was first introduced in studies of crime and socalled deviant behaviour, initially by sociologists in the United States, as far back as the 1930s.
		Hebdige argued that subcultural styles can be distinguished from mainstream styles by the intentional way that they have been 'fabricated' by members of a subculture to actively construct a sense of difference from the conventional outfits worn by the 'average man or woman in the street'.
		Subcultural capital is used by aspiring youth groups as a way of gaining status and to differentiate their own preferences and activities from those of other social groups.
	www.music.ucsb.edu /faculty/cooley/classes/mus114/reading/readings/negus.html (10195 words)

	SUBCULTURAL DISCOURSE
		I have found that all of these subcultures have experimented with language as a means for marking off their unique subcultural identity, and their opposition to 'straight' life.
		These subcultures attempt to question meaning at a deep level, challenging existing conventions and linguistic norms, rejecting essentialist understandings of language as being static and strongly 'rooted' in the external physical world, and instead promoting understandings of it as a tool for negotiating meanings and creating cultural change.
		Subcultural jargon is a "linguistic laboratory" because inevitably subcultural terms "filter" out to the culture at large.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/subcultural-discourse.html (3736 words)

	CULTURE MACHINE: vol:1 no:1 Nov 1998 Taking Risks With The Future.
		A practice rooted in the revival of ‘tribalism’ may have important consequences for community and identity.
		Even though the efficacy of body modification practices in interrogating normative discourses of, say, identity is beyond doubt, it is also imperative that some space be allotted to a consideration of ethics.
		The individual's pursuit of happiness through such body modification practices is 'contextualised' in the following: the capacity to pursue the same, the social acceptance of such 'radical' pursuits, and peer pressure in favour of or against these modes.
	culturemachine.tees.ac.uk /Reviews/rev6.htm (2335 words)

	Subcultural identity practices - TheBestLinks.com - Culture, Skinheads, Hackers, Subculture, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Subcultural identity practices - TheBestLinks.com - Culture, Skinheads, Hackers, Subculture,...
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		The practices by which a subculture in particular, or subcultures in general, define, mark and police the boundaries between their members and the larger culture.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Subcultural_identity_practices.html (192 words)

	What Choice? Representations of Race, Gender and Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The bulk of the subculture genre is comprised of films filled with whiteness, which, in and of itself, does not separate the genre from Hollywood films in general.
		In the movie Blue Crush, which focuses on female surfers, the protagonist’s boyfriend’s greatest challenge to her subcultural identity is to offer her a role as more mainstream woman—wearing dresses and makeup rather than cutoff shorts and T-shirts, socializing with his teammates’ wives while he hangs out with the guys.
		Subcultural capital consists of knowledge, attitudes, paraphernalia, etc., and possession of those things confers a status on the owner in much the same way that the knowledge, tastes, and accoutrements of high culture confer status in the mainstream.
	www.creighton.edu /~spoko/subculture/representations.html (4000 words)

	L-C Symposium 7
		One advantage of the community of practice is that it reverses the usual direction of causality between language and identity: Rather than understanding linguistic practice as the reflection of a previously formed and relatively fixed identity, Eckert and McConnell-Ginet argue that identity emerges through linguistic practice.
		This dialectic between ideology and practice is evident in the use of slang, a richly semiotic component of the lexicon in which linguistic practices and ideologies collaborate to produce distinctive youth identities based on distinctive styles.
		This mapping reflected ideology rather than practice, and in any case, any social separation during lunch and before and after school was mitigated by the fact that students intermingled with and encountered diverse social groups and ways of speaking in classrooms, hallways, and extracurricular activities.
	www.binghamton.edu /language-culture/symposia/8 (7976 words)

	SVCP -- Silicon Missionaries and Identity Evangelists
		An identity may be individual, or social, and ultimately a new identity may emerge that will combine the strengths of the former into a source for social transformation.
		That prowess gave him an “identity niche” so that he “found a very comfortable space focused on technology and got a lot of attention, a lot praise for it, then and now.” This identity is deeply intertwined with his identification with his work organization.
		The former is based on interview and structured observation, the study examines the work practices, cultural identification and community activities and visions of 175 people, drawn from various occupations and organizations in the Silicon Valley Region.
	www.sjsu.edu /depts/anthropology/svcp/SVCPiden.html (6207 words)

	Walter Feinberg - The Goals of Multicultural Education: A Critical Re-evaluation
		Moreover, given that cultural pride is designed to advance the solidarity of particular subcultures, this, the critic continues, will short change those individual students who find subcultural identity confining and limiting.
		The first is where the meanings and practices of the group are not working in the way that they should, and where members are excluded from full participation in the larger society because of cultural factors.
		The presence of this condition alone is not sufficient to justify the introduction of units that are specifically aimed at providing the child with a more favorable view of her own culture, but it is a necessary condition for it.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /EPS/PES-yearbook/96_docs/feinberg.html (4071 words)

	Gothic resources for Goths - clothing, makeup, jewelry, art, Gothic fashion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Goth is a modern subculture that gained visibility during the early 1980s within the gothic rock scene, a sub-genre of post punk, and continues to this day.
		Gothic fashion is a part of the identity practices of the goth subculture.
		Members of the subculture may and often do have different ideas about what constitutes gothic fashion than members of the population at large, and some styles which read as "goth" to many people are seen as "outsider" by those in the scene.
	www.largie.com /gothic.htm (3470 words)

	Sociology of Religion: The marginalization of evangelical feminism
		The theory of religious subcultural strength (Smith 1998) provides a framework for understanding both the poly-vocal nature of evangelical discourse on gender as well as the persistent marginalization of the more egalitarian voices within the evangelical community.
		Among conservative Protestants, evangelicalism thrives because at the center of its subcultural identity is the drive to be simultaneously in but not of the "world." Although evangelicals, fundamentalists and Pentecostal Christians are often identified as "conservative Protestants" and "biblical literalists" each has its own history, doctrinal distinctives, and religious subculture.
		As we will see, it also contributes to the resilience of that subculture to the efforts of evangelical feminists to mobilize the strands of partnership and mutuality within their own history and revises the notions of husbands' head-ship and wives' domesticity that have dominated evangelical discourse on gender.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SOR/is_3_65/ai_n8693738 (909 words)

	Cyberculture Working Group
		Further, the uses and limitations of the `net in the perpetuation of subcultures are, to a large extent, dictated by individuals' access to technology.
		Constructs of identity and ignorance occur within a discursive framing of the Internet and digital technologies that allows the ‘unconnected' in the present to be negatively equated with the ‘illiterate' of the past" (Warnick 5).
		The post-gender identities is a term taken from the "classical" work of Donna J. Haraway, The Manifesto for the Cyborgs, 1991, about the late twentieth century identites as a recognition of the world without gender.
	www.otal.umd.edu /amst/cwg/abstracts.html (6033 words)

	alterity
		Def 2: Coming from an anthropological perspective, culture "refers to social practices" and "the study of relationships between elements in a whole way of life" (60).
		In other words, threaded through all social practices is culture which is the "sum of their inter-relationships" (60).
		Hall then moves to discuss culture in Williams' text before broadly speaking of the historical situation around Cultural Studies that permitted this, referencing a structuralist and culturalist schism and moving to the likes of Marx, Althusser, Gramsci, Durkheim, and Levi-Strauss to complicate the concept of culture from the schism.
	www.zephoria.org /alterity/archives/2004/11 (4865 words)

	"Dumb Luck at SPE" by Nadine McGann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		She contextualized the work in terms of notions of cultural identity and the retelling of histories, as discussed by such theorists as Stuart Hall.
		Drawing on images from group exhibitions such as "Interrogating Identities," "Fabled Territories: New Asian Photography in Britain" and "An Economy of Signs," she outlined the shift in practices among many imagemakers dealing with issues of national, social, and racial identity and power from social documentation to constructed images and the use of text.
		Gupta discussed how much of contemporary practice has developed as a critical response to earlier fl photography, which in many ways reproduced the same problems as the work of white photographers, reiterating such myths as the existence of objective and documentable truth, or the glorification of the artist as seer.
	www2.rpa.net /~vsw/afterimage/mcgann.htm (2115 words)

	adventist today
		At Stage 3 my identity is based on being part of a group with shared history, traditions and values.
		Adult Stage 3 Adventists, then, tend to be loyal and support the church and its beliefs and subcultural lifestyle practices.
		Usually people at Stage 4 have little interest in the marks of Adventist subcultural identity, because there is a moving away from group-based identity, as well as from dependence on external sources of authority.
	www.atoday.com /magazine/archive/1995/marapr1995/articles/StagesofFaith.shtml (1559 words)

	Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web
		Whilst the social shaping of such practices may not often be visible to the user, subcultures generate conventions about materials and uses which are deemed appropriate for their members.
		Howard Rheingold has argued that ‘the authenticity of relationships [and identities] is always in question in cyberspace, because of the masking and distancing of the medium, in a way that it is not in question in real life’ (Rheingold nd).
		However, whatever the usefulness of personal home pages for the development and maintenance of their makers’ identities, there are still material differences between text and world, and the social utility of this new textual genre remains crucially dependent on the extent to which it may empower its authors in lived experience.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/short/webident.html (7035 words)

	Ethnology Abstracts, Winter 2004, Vol. 43 #1 \| An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Department ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Unmarried Israeli_Palestinian women are normatively expected to remain virgins and social juniors, yet in practice their handling of their sexuality, and by extension their femininity, produces a range of social personas.
		Muslim women are said to live in a male_dominated society with rigid sexual stratification: the seclusion and control of the sexual practices of a woman increase a man's status and power.
		The comparison of Bofi weaning practices leads to a discussion of weaning patterns among other farmers and foragers and weaning patterns predicted by region and subsistence.
	www.pitt.edu /~ethnolog/winter04.html (636 words)

	Subcultural Identity Practices Essays, Term Papers on Subcultural Identity Practicess, and Research Paper Essay Help
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	UPNE \| Subcultural Sounds
		A fascinating study of subcultural musics and their cultural identities.
		The study of subcultural musics, what Mark Slobin calls "small musics in big systems," is characterized by a tremendously expanding search for cultural identity within multiethnic societies that are increasingly caught up in global cultural flow.
		Subcultural Sounds is the first critical attempt to explore the dynamics of this process in Europe and America, the heartland of music production and bellwether for global culture.
	www.upne.com /0-8195-5253-4.html (178 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Male Femaling: A Grounded Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For people interested in the processes of socialization, identity, relationships, solitary and subcultural involvements, and the like, this is a very worthwhile study.
		Thus, he neither promotes nor condemns people's gendering practices, but rather attempts to indicate in direct and open terms just how people actually experience and manage their identities and activities in the process of transgendering.
		While focusing on those involved in an assortment of transgendering (male femaling) practices, the objective is to learn more about the ways in which human group life is accomplished more generally.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415106249 (639 words)

	Books - Sexual Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation.
		Psychosis and Sexual Identity: Toward a Post-Analytic View of the Schreber Case (SUNY series in intersections.
		Sexualities: Identities, Behaviors, and Society focuses on gender, using multiple...
	www.enotalone.com /books.php?page=2&mode=books&topic=Sexual+Identity (435 words)

	Powell's Books - In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Judith Halberstam
		She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms--especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.
		She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities.
		Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0814735851-0 (440 words)

	Interpersonal relations
		An individual's cultural background has an effect on every area of healthcare service, ranging from a simple technical procedure to the content and effectiveness of health education activities.
		Becoming familiar with the beliefs and practices of different cultural and subcultural groups (the military community, for example) is not only enriching to the healthcare provider, but also promotes an under- standing and acceptance of the various peoples in the world community.
		Information identifying racial affiliation can be an asset to the healthcare provider in assessing the patient's needs, carrying out direct-care activities, and planning and implementing patient education programs.
	www.tpub.com /corpsman/67.htm (1212 words)

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