Cognition of Mainstream Culture and Subculture in English-speaking Countries

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10.2991/icecsd-17.2017.16How to use a DOI?

Keywords

mainstream culture, subculture, cognition

Abstract

This paper explains how to cognize the mainstream culture and subculture in English-speaking countries. There are many different kinds of cultures in the world, and some of them are mixed while others are not. Most of cultures have been kept for thousands of years. Mainstream culture is widespread, the culture of most people and the normal way of action. Mainstream cultures are typically disseminated by mass media. A subculture differs in one or more ways from the mainstream culture. Subcultures are norms and values which are distinct from the majority and a group within a wider society. The paper states that the English language is widely dispersed around the world in which the youth can identify themselves with a subculture on different levels. The youth think that they can gain social status and respect within the subculture by identifying and being good at a subculture. In the paper the author shows that the study of subcultures is often made up of the study of symbols which are attached to clothing, music and other visible affectations by members of subcultures.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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