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  2. Mod (subculture) - Wikipedia

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    Paul Jobling and David Crowley argued that the definition of mod can be difficult to pin down, because throughout the subculture's original era, it was "prone to continuous reinvention." [ 10 ] They claimed that since the mod scene was so pluralist, the word mod was an umbrella term that covered several distinct sub-scenes.

  3. Category:Mod (subculture) - Wikipedia

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    Focused on music and fashion, the subculture has its roots in a small group of stylish London-based young men in the late 1950s who were termed modernists because they listened to modern jazz. [ 2 ] ^ Grossman, Henry; Spencer, Terrance; Saton, Ernest (13 May 1966).

  4. History of modern Western subcultures - Wikipedia

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    The Bloomsbury group in London was one example, providing a place where the diverse talents of people like Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E.M. Forster could interact. Other pre-World War I subcultures were smaller social groupings of hobbyists or a matter of style and philosophy amongst artists and bohemian poets. In ...

  5. Subculture - Wikipedia

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    A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the values of the conservative, standard or dominant culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding cultural, political, and sexual matters.

  6. Subcultural theory - Wikipedia

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    Phil Cohen (1972) studied the youth of East London in the early 1970s. He examined the immediate and the wider context to determine how two different youth subcultures reacted to the changes occurring in their community. He suggested that the Mod reaction was to the new ideology of affluence. They wanted to show that they had money and knew how ...

  7. Subculture: The Meaning of Style - Wikipedia

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    Subculture: The Meaning of Style is a 1979 book by Dick Hebdige, focusing on Britain's postwar youth subculture styles as symbolic forms of resistance. [1] Drawing from Marxist theorists, literary critics, French structuralists, and American sociologists, Hebdige presents a model for analyzing youth subcultures . [ 2 ]

  8. List of subcultures - Wikipedia

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  9. Cultural psychology - Wikipedia

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    Cultural psychology is often confused with cross-cultural psychology.Even though both fields influence each other, cultural psychology is distinct from cross-cultural psychology in that cross-cultural psychologists generally use culture as a means of testing the universality of psychological processes rather than determining how local cultural practices shape psychological processes. [12]