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The term of “subculture” seems at least confusing. It seems to point, in a pejorative way to something “lower” than culture, to a hybrid form similar in many respects to kitsch as a pseudo-art, of bad quality, inferior to the veritable art. In reality, the subculture, is an expression of the great cultural diversity existent in any society and which emphasizes the identity of different social groups characterized by rules, values and lifestyles, alternative or …

…are alternative ways of existing and expressing oneself, or as a dominant entity where these subcultures are simple expressions of structural inequity. However, the society of the 20thcentury, is a pluralist society where the “out-cast” subcultures meet and where, unfortunately, they are often seen as solutions for living, as reactions adjusted to the problems of social groups whose opportunities and chances of professional accomplishment contrast strongly to the chances and opportunities of favored social groups.