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So regarded, man is not yet a self In the relation between two, the relation is the third term as a negative unity, and the two relate themselves to the relation. And in the relation to the relation; such a relation is that between soul and body when a man is regarded as soul.

If on the contrary. The relation relates itself to its own self, the relation is then the positive third term, and this is the self. Such a relation. Touraine's opposition phase of social movements also comes to mind.

Dionysian, Malinowski's Magic, science and religion etc. The term and concept in original use: SC I Turning now to our sub-field proper, SC as a term in wider use is of recent origin, not found e.

As a single most successful propagator of the term, Hall's follower Dick Hebdige stands out, whose Subculture: The meaning of style from in its ninth printing by , a slim contemporary, may I say sub-classic, is admirable in many ways.

However that may be, there is something of a watershed in the use of the term SC around the late sixties or early seventies. It contains some of the dominant cultural values but also contains values, perspectives or lifestyles peculiar to itself. Every group has some patterns of its own, but the patterns of a specialised group do not necessarily affect the total life of its members and, therefore, do not comprise a subculture. A subculture, on the other hand, has a more general influence on the person and tends to give him a discernible identity.

A typical SC was seen as based on occupation, or ' Core examples would include military or garrison values etc. Locality is singled out as a most embracing criterion. So far, no mention of youth or other age groups22 at all, nor of the role of the media, nor of symbolism. SC emerges as a somewhat derogatory term. The term is, however, listed in its Index, with 11 separate entries, three of which to be found under 'delinquency' whereas 'deviance' is absent, except for 'sex' below , three others special cases thereof 'drug addiction' two entries and 'homicide' , two more concern 'homosexuality' and 'sexual deviation'.

The penultimate two are starting to approach present use - 'class culture' and 'political culture', both of which, while conceding that studies of subordinate cultures dominate 'culture of poverty', 'mass culture' yet do discuss the study of political or class 'elite cultures' as well.

Here, with reference to Hebdige, 'the subcultural' is outlined as lifestyles or forms of living which deviate notably from the dominant hegemonic culture patterns.

Sometimes, subcultures stand in open conflict with the dominant or official culture, constituting a 'counter culture'. More often, subculture and main culture agree to differ, and the subcultures encapsulate themselves The Concise Oxford in some contrast takes 'beliefs or interests at variance with the larger culture' as SC's specific trait - weaker and wider, it seems, than the Norwegian formula avviker betydelig or 'deviates notably'.

Now to Hebdige himself, starting with the narrower, or rather, the distinct, counter culture: The term counter culture refers to the amalgam of 'alternative' middle-class youth cultures - the hippies, the flower children, the yippies - which grew out of the 60s, and came to prominence during the period Whereas opposition in subculture is, as we have seen, displaced into symbolic forms of resistance, the revolt of middle class youth tends to be more articulate, more confident The core terms here are symbolic forms of resistance.

Both, however, deal with juvenile groups, movements or cohorts, almost to exclusion. A this stage, it would appear that older peoples' roles in SCs are strictly those of spectators, opponents or supporters, enemies or fans, never full members. Here as elsewhere in Hebdige's text SC appears as something of a fuzzy set, developed around a small set of instances, notably the punk movement, targeted more on demonstrating the power of a semiotic, symbol-reading type of analysis, than on developing a general analytic concept, i.

A model for research, not a definition, is proposed. Most writers still tend to attribute an inordinate significance to the opposition between young and old,..

What is missing Hebdige 24 Slightly overstated in my opinion. While some SC members can and do make efforts to keep their 'variant' ways well out of sight for all outsiders high segregativity, cf. Hannerz , others such ways are difficult to hide. A punk's safety pin, chains and dog collar can be taken off, not their hairdo. Hebdige exemplifies a paradigm change, sort of, in anthropology and - to some extent in sociology too - from functionalism into semiology or hermeneutics, 'the interpretation of meaning'.

Prominent analyses concern the use of symbols in bricolage, i. Though he admits to ' The meaning of SCs is hardly possible to grasp through texts alone; it requires having seen the events, the props and costumes, at least on pictures or screens; having heard the stories or the music, an ability to recognise a style by its less obvious details etc.

A commendable start for a total outsider would be the thoroughly 25 Jean Genet's Vaseline tube is Hebdige's starting point, the police reading it as a sign of the male homosexual, most often thought of as a lasting SC, not a passing stage; a 'master status' Hughes , however unofficial. As a sign, his tube will disclose rather than signify; unlike punk's safety pin it is not for willed display.

In Peirce's terms it's an index not a symbol, signal rather than sign. The changes reviewed Summing up so far, SC before c.

In short, SC I is 1 distinct, 2 total, 3 local, 4 not widely known, and 5 inter- not intra-cohort. After, the typical use of the term has changed considerably.

SCs are still distinct albeit with continuities, but further the weight is rather on what SCs are not: not entirely closed and certainly not little-known; not 'counter culture' cf. In short once more, SC II is still 1 distinct, but 2 segregative26 rather than total, 3 widely, even generally publicised, i. SCs are above all 5 new, selective ' SC IIs are not fields champs , not autonomous social systems Gottdiener gives a vivid account of how he first discovered and gradually learned to decipher or 'read' punk, its music, style and ideas.

Leaning on Hebdige but even more on later works by Marcus and Savage , he traces a main root of punk in situationism, personified in the Sex Pistols' Malcolm McLaren, who had a background both as an activist in the Paris of May and in Guy Debord's L'internationale situationiste. Marcus, according to Gottdiener Wanting to broaden the market for his boutique items, he promoted a rock band of dubious musicianship as the standard-bearers for the new look.

McLaren turned situationist ideology into a commodity, first through fashion, and then through rock music. Marcus shows how Punk, as the commodification of anarchism, succeeded beyond anyone's expectations. Hebdige succeeds, I think, in explaining some noted punk symbols such as the much-adoed safety pin, chains, plastic etc. Both Gottdiener and Hebdige, however, remain punk fans, more or less fascinated by the phenomenon.

Similar cases of fascinated nostalgia are well known in Norway as well. With hippie and ultra-leftist movements waning in the late 70ies, new juvenile groups emerged, practising illegal occupation of vacant housing etc. For some years they celebrated the custom of 'the night before the 1st of May' - youth drinking and dancing in Oslo's city streets, including occasional vandalism, looting and clashes with the police.

The morning after, the usually so quiet city streets would be full of debris and reek of lachrymogenes. Fryjordet , supervised by sympathising post-gauchiste senior researchers Who, then, are the instigators of SCs? In the old sense SC I this was by and large an insulated thing, with few or restricted outside influences.

Not so in the recent sense: We cannot really speak of a SC - SC II - without acknowledging the major influence of the media, both as willed and provoked from within a SC, and as best-selling headlines etc.

Stan Cohen's inventory concept is in point, the exaggeration and distortion etc. For a contemporary SC, public attention, or 'visibility', equals life; it simply can't emerge without. A contemporary SC with no media attention cannot be, agreed. But what about a completely unresearched case? Aren't their - our - fascination and its role in subsequent teaching as required? Take Punk, then, was it mainly McLaren's personal lucky conspiracy? Or was it the work of the media, the music and its stars, the fashions?

Lowrie's translation, first published in and later revised, was the first in English, and it has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to Kierkegaard's thought. Kierkegaard counted Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death among "the most perfect books I have written," and in them he introduces two terms--"the absurd" and "despair"--that have become key terms in modern thought.

Fear and Trembling takes up the story of Abraham and Isaac to explore a faith that transcends the ethical, persists in the face of the absurd, and meets its reward in the return of all that the faithful one is willing to sacrifice, while The Sickness Unto Death examines the spiritual anxiety of despair.

Walter Lowrie's magnificent translation of these seminal works continues to provide an ideal introduction to Kierkegaard. A work of Christian existentialism , the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair , which he equates with the Christian concept of sin , which he terms, "the sin of despair.

Johannes Climacus [2] says he's not a Christian whereas Anti-Climacus [3] says he's extraordinary Christian. Anti-Climacus introduces the book with a reference to John "This sickness is not unto death. However, Anti-Climacus raises the question: would not this statement still be true even if Jesus had not raised Lazarus from the dead? While the human conception of death is the end, the Christian conception of death is merely another stop along the way of the eternal life.

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