Social Movements Of Subcultures

Subcultures and social movements are two closely connected phenomena in sociology and are considered to be central conceptions of academic study. Neil Stammers has recently argued that social movements are not only central to the process of social change, but are key to understanding the origin and development of human rights; that social movements, in challenging extant power, generate human rights demands. Thus theorists such as Cohen viewed subcultures and social movements as points along a continuum, not as totally separate concepts; individuals with ‘similar problems of adjustment’ interact, creating new cultural forms by developing new group standards or shared frame of reference. If subcultures and social movements were originally conceived as being differ View the rest of this article