Cultural resistance
Cultural hegemony
Subcultural theory

– Organised political movements
– Public protests
– Petitions, marches

Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders
● Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture
● Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means.
● Ideology: worldview – beliefs, assumptions and values

Cultural hegemony functions by framing the ideologies of the dominant social group as the only legitimate
ideology.

The Birmingham school were the first to recognise teenagers and British working-class youth culture.

Subculture:
– working-class youth culture
– Unified by shared tastes in style, music and ideology
– A solution to collectively experienced problems
– A form of resistance to cultural hegemony