Subculture (youth) is a fairly common cultural phenomenon, which has its own characteristic features. Most often, its participants are young people who are characterized by an unbalanced emotional state with unstable personality parameters. Having studied the phenomenon of the subculture in detail, we can conclude that its adherents see it as a way of self-expression, and the fact that most species focus on external attributes most likely means a shallow understanding by their participants of their own spiritual needs. Therefore, they find elements of clothing and style in a suitable way of manifesting themselves in society.
What is a subculture?
First of all, this is the subject of study by cultural scientists, sociology and anthropology. Let us turn to the definition of David Riesman, who first introduced the concept of subculture, where it is understood as a group of people who purposely chooses certain values and style of clothing, behavior and thinking, which the minority resorted to.
Hence, we can assume that this category is not satisfied with social norms and values, therefore, people with rebellious behavior are more likely to be found in the subculture, which is associated with internal aggression, since they intend to vividly declare themselves with their behavior, clothes and thinking in society.
Youth subculture is, first of all, a certain cultural niche, adherents of which are identified by age: from 14 to 30 years. The specificity of youthful psychology also determines the nature of most types of youth subcultures: the radicalism of values, vivid self-expression with the help of attributes and high emotionality, the division of the world into “black” and “white” and societies into “gray masses” and bright individuals.
Fashion subculture
The fifties of the twentieth century were marked by the emergence of one of the most common subcultures, which then spawned several others. These were the fashion - the young British, who paid great attention to their distinctive appearance. One of the most radical subcultures that arose as an offshoot of modism is skinheads.
Narrow Italian costumes were originally a style attribute of mods. They were distinguished by a love of music: rock and roll, jazz, ska, soul and rhythm and blues. The attitude of society to this direction was, to a greater extent, negative: this can be seen in the reviews of the movie “Quadrofenia”, the plot of which tells about the life of a fashion - a simple courier who wastes his life: on drugs, pills and parties. Nevertheless, in 2004, one of the rating magazines included the film in the list of the greatest British films.
The main transport of the mods was scooters, they spent time with like-minded people in seaside resorts and nightclubs, where clashes often occurred between them and representatives of another subculture - rockers.
10 years after its inception, this movement became less popular.
Emo Subculture
This subculture was formed from a musical style. Society ambiguously reacted to the emergence of this movement, in Russia the boom occurred at the beginning of the 2000s, and this phenomenon was often discussed in the media, and then at the state level.
- Subculture emo and attitude. First of all, emo kids focused on the fact that they express emotions. The positions taken by emo are the struggle for justice and sensual attitude. Most people have the opinion that these are psychologically weak, tearful young people who romanticize death: it is difficult to say whether this estimate is true, but the number of suicides among the young population at that time increased, and this fact does not contradict this idea of emo kid. Representatives of the subculture are introverted, immersed in depressive states, or, conversely, in unjustified joy. This is clear evidence of mental instability and it is not surprising that the public was negative about the development of emo culture. They were often correlated with the Goths, which is wrong: on one of the sites dedicated to emo, they drew the line: "emo hate themselves, the Goths hate everyone."
- Subculture emo: clothing and image. Emo kiddies wore slanting lacerated bangs covering half of their faces, dyed their hair black, made tunnels in their ears. Both sexes were applied to the face: tinted face and lips with light color. Nails were covered with black varnish. The main combination of colors in clothes: pink, white, black.
- Subculture emo: attributes. A large number of multi-colored icons attached to clothes and mail bags, large glasses with dark glasses, bright bracelets and wristbands.
