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| | One continent under a groove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | They showed how subcultural groups are formed by youth who share this social position, and how these groups construct alternative value systems that allow youth-members to "measure themselves" against more accessible "counter middle-class" standards. |
 | | Instead, he suggests that after the 1970s, subcultural authenticity became "impossible" because of contemporary culture's tendency to be self-referential, shallow, flat and hyper-real — i.e., a culture of effervescent, spectacular, fast moving, ever-present, "better than real" images. |
 | | That is to say, they have a low degree of commitment to any subcultural group and high rates of subcultural mobility, a fascination with style and image, are generally apolitical, and have a "positive attitude toward media and a celebration of the inauthentic" (Muggleton, 2000: 52). |
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