SUBCULTURE

By
N., Pam M.S.
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it is just like a community having the main characteristics of one specific culture and some other beliefs and ideas that distinguishes it from that specific culture. Also read counterculture.

SUBCULTURE: "Subculture maintains some characteristics of a large culture where it refuses to maintain some other characteristics of the same culture."

Related Psychology Terms

  1. DIFFUSION
  2. FOLKLORE
  3. VALUE SYSTEM
  4. GEMEINSCHAFT
  5. ZEITGEIST
  6. CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROME
  7. GROUP ATTRIBUTION ERROR
  8. CULTURAL RESIDUE, CULTURE LEAD
  9. CULTURAL BLINDNESS
  10. TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE
Cite this page: N., Pam M.S., "SUBCULTURE," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 13, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/subculture/ (accessed May 27, 2020).
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