List of subcultures

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• BDSM
• Beat Generation
  Beat generation
  The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired...
  
  , see Beatnik
  Beatnik
  Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into violent film images and a cartoonish misrepresentation of the real-life people and the spirituality found in Jack Kerouac's...
  
  
• Biker, see also Motorcycle club
  Motorcycle club
  A motorcycle club is a group of individuals whose primary interest and activities involve motorcycles.In the U.S. the abbreviation, MC or MCC, can have a special social meaning from the point of view of the outlaw subcultures, and is usually reserved by them for those clubs that are mutually...
  
  s and Outlaw motorcycle club
  Outlaw motorcycle club
  An outlaw motorcycle club is a type of motorcycle club that is part of a subculture with roots in the post-WWII USA, centered on cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals celebrating freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and loyalty to the biker...
  
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• Bills
  Bills
  The Bills were a youth subculture that thrived in Léopoldville in the late 1950s, basing much of their image and outlook on the cowboys of American Western movies.-Background:...
  
  
• Bohemianism
  Bohemianism
  Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits, with few permanent ties...
  
  
• Bodybuilding
  Bodybuilding
  Bodybuilding is a form of body modification involving intensive muscle hypertrophy; an individual who engages in this activity is referred to as a bodybuilder. In competitive bodybuilding, bodybuilders display their physiques to a panel of judges, who assign points based on their appearance...
  
  
• Bōsōzoku
  Bosozoku
  is a Japanese subculture associated with motorcycle clubs and gangs.They were first seen in the 1950s as the Japanese automobile industry expanded rapidly. The first bōsōzoku were known as kaminari-zoku...
  
  

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• Fandom
  Fandom
  Fandom is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of sympathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest...
  
  
• Fetish subculture
  Fetish subculture
  Fetish culture is a term used to describe the lifestyle and arts relating to and influenced by the interest in sexual fetishism and paraphilias. This includes Fetish magazines, and a particular style of fashion, photography, art and modelling. Also within fetish culture is a nightclub scene that is...
  
  , see Omorashi
  Omorashi
  is a fetish subculture recognized predominantly in Japan, in which participants experience arousal from having a full bladder or a sexual attraction to someone else experiencing the feeling of a full bladder. Outside of Japan, it is not usually identified separately from urolagnia though however...
  
  
• Freak scene
  Freak scene
  The freak scene was a term used by a slightly post-hippie and pre-punk style of bohemian subculture. It referred to overlaps between politicised pacifist post-hippies, generally non-political progressive rock fans, and non-political Psychedelic music and Psychedelia fans...
  
  
• Furries
  Furry fandom
  Furry fandom refers to the fandom for fictional anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics. Examples of anthropomorphic attributes include exhibiting human intelligence and facial expressions, the ability to speak, walk on two legs, and wear clothes...
  
  

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• Goth subculture
  Goth subculture
  The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify...
  
  
• Gothic Lolita
• Greaser (subculture)
• Grebo
  Grebo
  Grebo was a United Kingdom subculture of the late 1980s and early 1990s, largely based in the English Midlands.Influential bands in the scene were Pop Will Eat Itself , The Wonder Stuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Leicester bands Crazyhead, The Bomb Party, The Hunters Club, Scum Pups and Gaye Bykers...
  
  
• Grungies
• Glam rock
  Glam rock
  Glam rock is a style that developed in the UK in the post-hippie early 1970s that was "performed by singers and musicians wearing outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots." The flamboyant costumes, and visual styles of glam performers were a campy, theatrical blend of...
  
   and glam metal
  Glam metal
  Glam metal is a term used to describe the visual style or fashion of certain heavy metal music bands that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States, particularly on the Los Angeles Sunset Strip music scene...
  
  

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• Hacker, see Hacker (free and open source software) and Hacker (computer security)
  Hacker (computer security)
  In common usage, a hacker is a person who breaks into computers, usually by gaining access to administrative controls. The subculture that has evolved around hackers is often referred to as the computer underground...
  
  
• Hardline (subculture)
• Hip hop culture, see also B-boy
  B-boy
  A b-boy or break-boy is a male dancer who practices breaking or b-boying, the original hip-hop dance style. Equal terms for this are b-girl, to refer to a female who practices breaking, and breaker which is gender neutral...
  
  , Graffiti
  Graffiti
  Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
  
   artists
• Hippie
  Hippie
  The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district...
  
  /Hippy
• Hipster, see Hipster (1940s subculture)
  Hipster (1940s subculture)
  Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular modern jazz, which became popular in the early 1940s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress, slang terminology, use of cannabis and other drugs,...
  
   and Hipster (contemporary subculture)
  Hipster (contemporary subculture)
  Hipster is a slang term that first appeared in the 1940s, and was revived in the 1990s and 2000s often to describe types of young, recently-settled urban middle class adults and older teenagers with interests in non-mainstream fashion and culture, particularly alternative music, independent rock,...
  
  

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• National Socialist black metal
  National Socialist black metal
  National Socialist black metal is a term used for black metal artists who promote National Socialist beliefs through their lyrics and imagery. These beliefs often include ideas of white supremacy, racial separatism, antisemitism, heterosexism, and Nazi interpretations of paganism or Satanism...
  
  
• Nazi punk
  Nazi punk
  A Nazi punk is a neo-Nazi who is part of the punk subculture. The term also describes a type of music associated with them.Nazi punk music is similar to most other forms of punk rock, although it usually differs by having lyrics that express hatred for Jews, blacks, multiracial people, homosexuals,...
  
  
• New Age
  New Age
  The New Age is a decentralized Western social and spiritual movement that seeks "Universal Truth" and the attainment of the highest individual human potential. It includes aspects of cosmology, astrology, esotericism, alternative medicine, music, collectivism, sustainability, and nature...
  
  
• New Romanticism
• Nudism/Naturism
  Naturism
  Naturism or nudism is a cultural and political movement advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism....
  
  

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• Raggare
  Raggare
  Raggare is a subculture found mostly in Sweden and parts of Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany and Austria....
  
  
• Rave
  Rave
  Rave or rave party is a term first used in the 1980s and 90s to describe dance parties with fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties DJs and other performers play Electronic Dance Music...
  
  
• Riot Grrrl
  Riot Grrrl
  Riot grrrl was an underground feminist punk movement that started in the early 1990s, and it is often associated with third-wave feminism . However, riot grrrl's emphasis on universal female identity and separatism often appears more closely allied with second-wave feminism than with the third wave...
  
  
• Rivethead
  Rivethead
  A rivethead is a person associated with the industrial music scene . Although industrial music emerged in the post-punk period, the identifiable stereotype of an industrial fan emerged in the 1990s...
  
  , see Industrial music
  Industrial music
  Industrial music is an experimental music style, often including electronic music, that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists...
  
  
• Rockabilly
  Rockabilly
  Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a portmanteau of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development...
  
  
• Rocker (subculture)
• Role-playing game
  Role-playing game
  A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines...
  
  rs
• Rude boy
  Rude boy
  Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi or rudy were common terms for juvenile delinquents and criminals in 1960s Jamaica, and have since been used in other contexts...
  
  

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• Scooterboy
  Scooterboy
  A scooterboy is a member of a specific subculture based around riding motor scooters. The subculture started in the late 1960s in the industrial north of England...
  
  
• Skater
  Skater
  A skater is one who skates, mainly used in the term of riding with both feet on rollerskates or a "skateboard".Skater may also refer to:*Skater , a Slovenian dance music trio...
  
  
• Skinhead
  Skinhead
  A skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youths in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian rude boys and British mods,...
  
  ; See also: Gay skinhead
  Gay skinhead
  A gay skinhead, also known as a gayskin or queerskin, is a gay person who identifies with the skinhead subculture, often out of sexual interest. Some gay skinheads have a sexual fetish for skinhead clothing styles, and some have a fetish for violence. Some are attracted to skinheads' outward...
  
  , Redskin (subculture), Trojan skinhead
  Trojan skinhead
  Trojan skinheads are individuals who identify with the original British skinhead subculture of the late 1960s, when ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul music were popular, and there was a heavy emphasis on mod-influenced clothing styles...
  
  , White power skinhead & Suedehead
• Soulboy
  Soulboy
  Soulboys were a working class English youth subculture of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fans of American soul and funk music, the subculture emerged in North-West England as northern soul event attendees began to take more interest in the more modern funk and jazz funk sounds of artists such...
  
  
• Straight edge
  Straight edge
  Straight Edge refers to a lifestyle and youth movement that started within the hardcore punk subculture whose adherents make a lifetime commitment to refrain from drinking alcohol, using tobacco products, and taking any recreational drugs...
  
  
• Swing Kids
  Swing Kids
  The Swing Kids were a group of jazz and Swing lovers in Germany of the 1930s, mainly in Hamburg and Berlin. They were composed of 14- to 18-year old boys and girls in high school, most of them middle- or upper-class students, but some apprentice workers as well...
  
  
• Swinging
  Swinging
  Swinging, sometimes referred to as the swinging lifestyle, is "non-monogamous sexual activity, treated much like any other social activity, that can be experienced as a couple." The phenomenon of swinging may be seen as part of the sexual revolution of recent decades, which occurred after the...
  
  

See also

• History of Western Subcultures in the 20th Century
• Lifestyle
  Lifestyle
  Lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929. The current broader sense of the word dates from 1961.In sociology, a lifestyle is the way a person lives. A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time...
  
  
• Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
  Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
  Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures are subcultures and communities composed of persons who have shared experiences, background, or interests due to a common sexual or gender identity. Among the first to argue that members of sexual minorities can constitute cultural minorities as well as...
  
  
• Youth subculture
  Youth subculture
  A youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. According to subculture theorists such as Dick Hebdige, members of a subculture often signal their membership by making distinctive and symbolic tangible choices in, for example, clothing styles,...