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What are the main features of subcultures as defined by British cultural studies
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Charlene Harry Culture and Cultural Studies MC 51005A What are the main features of subcultures as defined by British cultural studies? Is the term still relevant to current youth culture? The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS or the Birmingham school) was the forefront of British cultural studies; the 1970's saw the culmination of first major research into youth subcultures in post war Britain. The combination of the work by such cultural theorist as Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Phil Cohen And Paul Willis resulted in the British cultural studies definition of subcultures the main features of which worked on three levels. The historical level, the structural level and the ethnographic or biographic level. This definition of subcultures was created in the 1970's therefore is the term subcultures, under this definition still relevant to current youth cultures? Britain saw the crumbling of three social myths in the 1960's, the age of affluence, embourgeoisemont and...
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