The hipster movement spread, and young people, drawn to the music and fashion, took on attitudes and language derived from the culture of jazz. Unlike the vernacular of the day, hipster slang was purposefully ambiguous. In the s, U.
Photo courtesy of William P. By the s, the jazz culture was winding down and many traits of hepcat culture were becoming mainstream. A new subculture was on the rise. They were writers who listened to jazz and embraced radical politics. They bummed around, hitchhiked the country, and lived in squalor. The lifestyle spread.
Women wore black leotards and grew their hair long. As the Beat Generation faded, a new, related movement began. It too focused on breaking social boundaries, but it also advocated freedom of expression, philosophy, and love. It took its name from the generations before; in fact, some theorists claim that Beats themselves coined the term to describe their children.
Although contemporary hipsters may not seem to have much in common with s hipsters, the emulation of nonconformity is still there. In , sociologist Mark Greif set about investigating the hipster subculture of the United States and found that much of what tied the group members together was not based on fashion, musical taste, or even a specific point of contention with the mainstream. Much as the hepcats of the jazz era opposed common culture with carefully crafted appearances of coolness and relaxation, modern hipsters reject mainstream values with a purposeful apathy.
Young people are often drawn to oppose mainstream conventions, even if in the same way that others do. Based predominately in metropolitan areas, sometimes clustered around hotspots such as the Williamsburg neighborhood in New York City, hipsters define themselves through a rejection of the mainstream. As a subculture, hipsters spurn many of the values and beliefs of U. While hipster culture may seem to be the new trend among young, middle-class youth, the history of the group stretches back to the early decades of the s.
Where did the hipster culture begin? In the early s, jazz music was on the rise in the United States. The hipster movement spread, and young people, drawn to the music and fashion, took on attitudes and language derived from the culture of jazz. Unlike the vernacular of the day, hipster slang was purposefully ambiguous. By the s, the jazz culture was winding down and many traits of hepcat culture were becoming mainstream. A new subculture was on the rise. They were writers who listened to jazz and embraced radical politics.
They bummed around, hitchhiked the country, and lived in squalor. The lifestyle spread. Women wore black leotards and grew their hair long. It too focused on breaking social boundaries, but it also advocated freedom of expression, philosophy, and love.
It took its name from the generations before; in fact, some theorists claim that Beats themselves coined the term to describe their children. Although contemporary hipsters may not seem to have much in common with s hipsters, the emulation of nonconformity is still there.
In , sociologist Mark Greif set about investigating the hipster subculture of the United States and found that much of what tied the group members together was not based on fashion, musical taste, or even a specific point of contention with the mainstream.
Much as the hepcats of the jazz era opposed common culture with carefully crafted appearances of coolness and relaxation, modern hipsters reject mainstream values with a purposeful apathy. Young people are often drawn to oppose mainstream conventions, even if in the same way that others do.
Ironic, cool to the point of non-caring, and intellectual, hipsters continue to embody a subculture, while simultaneously impacting mainstream culture. Online apps for shopping, however, have made significant strides. Take Etsy, for example. The terms race and ethnicity are similar and there is a degree of overlap between them. Both race and ethnic identity draw on an identification with others based on common ancestry and shared cultural traits.
An ethnic group , on the other hand, claims a distinct identity based on cultural characteristics and a shared ancestry that are believed to give its members a unique sense of peoplehood or heritage. The cultural characteristics used to define ethnic groups vary; they include specific languages spoken, religions practiced, and distinct patterns of dress, diet, customs, holidays, and other markers of distinction. In some societies, ethnic groups are geographically concentrated in particular regions, as with the Kurds in Turkey and Iraq and the Basques in northern Spain.
Many individuals view their ethnicity as an important element of their personal and social identity. Numerous psychological, social, and familial factors play a role in ethnicity, and ethnic identity is most accurately understood as a range or continuum populated by people at every point.
New age spirituality emerged as a spiritual and religious subculture in the s. It is highly eclectic without a central unifying doctrine. However, it is often characterized by a holistic understanding of divinity similar to pantheism and belief in the ability to communicate with angels and the afterlife. Surf culture existed as a small sub-culture throughout the 20th Century, but boomed in the s in Southern California.
There are sub-sets of this cultural grouping, such as big wave surfers and ocean environmentalism. A common trope in surf culture is territorialism, with surfers laying claim to certain surf breaks as their own.
This culture is also visible in Hawaii and Australia. Similar to surf culture, ski bum culture is predominantly found in the Alps in Europe and Rockies in North America.
Ski bums and surfer culture overlap, with the cultures dovetailing between winter and summer months. Hipsters were a sub-culture in the s, but made a resurgence in the early 21st Century. It is characterized by counter-cultural fashion, including wearing clothing and stylings ironically.
Full beards, twirled mustaches, big glasses, bicylces and skinny jeans are common. While intended to be counter-cultural, the fashion is derided for its internal consistency and conformism, and was quickly co-opted into the fashion mainstream of the s.
Cosplay events such as Comicon are world-wide annual celebrations of this subculture. Steampunk is associated with art, fashion and literature that is retrofuturistic. The fashion combines Victorian and industrial era iconography such as gears and steam powered machinery with futuristic science fiction. Steampunk has significant overlaps with cosplay due to the strong fan dress-up culture.
Graffiti subculture is an underground counterculture with eclectic members. It ranges from gangs making their marks on public infrastructure to lay claim to territory, through to legitimized graffiti art commissioned by councils and landowners. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, questioning and 2-Spirit sexualities in Indigenous North American culture are central to the movement. This subculture has gained significant legitimacy and recognition in law in recent years, and has a significant political sub-set that advocate for the rights of its members.
Skaters skateboarders are a sub-cultural group who gather around love of the sport of skateboarding. It grew throughout the second half of the 20th Century and was particularly strong in the s. There are two overlapping sub-groups: vert and street. That includes things like language, cuisine, ideologies, religious beliefs, and more. Culture tends to point to large groups of people within a certain geographical area. A subculture is a group within a culture that differs from the general consensus.
Explore some subculture examples, from beatniks to bodybuilders, and get a clear idea of what small groups of nonconformists look like. Certain subcultures have survived for decades. They make for an interesting study in sociology.
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