In common parlance the term subculture is used most often to describe those special worlds of interests and identifications that set apart some groups and/or larger aggregations from others. Social science use of the term is somewhat more specific....

Every society has a culture. By definition all members of a society will share in some of the aspects of its culture. But within the whole society there may be groups who are identifiable by possessing distinctly different values, beliefs and behaviour...

Refers to the culture of a group or a category of people. Hence an adult class can develop its own subculture, which in some ways is comparable to its ethos, a term used in educational...

In sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, a subculture is a group of people with a culture (whether distinct or hidden) which differentiates them from the larger culture to which they belong. If a particular subculture is characterized by a...

I was a seminarian at Theological College (TC) at the same time as four of the men interviewed in the July 21 front-page story "At Seminary, Unease Over Gay Priests." Andy Krzmarzick's categorization of TC as a sexually repressive place is partly correct. But...

APPALACHIA HAS a bad reputation, especially West Virginia, the only state whose borders lie entirely within anyone's definition of the Appalachian Mountains. Moonshine swillers and feuding hicks--these are the images that most people hold. "Hillbillies," despite today's politically correct climate, are still regular...