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Sociology: Counterculture/Subculture Project

Learning Targets

I can research my subculture or counterculture using credible web sources.

I can research specific questions about my subculture or counterculture.

I can film and edit a well-produced 30 second video which encapsulates the information I have learned about my subculture or counterculture.

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Project Guidelines

Counterculture/Subculture Project Guidelines

Directions: You have chosen a counterculture or a subculture project to research.

By the end you will need to create a short 30 second video that tells us all about the counterculture or subculture. In that video answer these questions:

1)     What are the characteristics that define this culture?

2)    What are the central beliefs/ideas that make this culture what it is?

3)    What about this counterculture or subculture makes it so different from the norm that it is a counter or subculture?

 

Grading:

1)     In on time: This is one of those things that will be used in class so it needs to turned in on time.

2)    The video needs to be as close to 30 seconds as possible no more and no less than about 5 seconds.

3)    It needs to give a good full explanation of the subculture or counterculture.

Subculture Research Links

 Beatniks

Beats

Beat Movement

 Bikers

Motorcycle Gangs Still Riding High

Bikers: A Sustainable Subculture Model

 Bronies

Bronies are Redefining Fandom

The Bros Who Love My Little Pony

 Deaf Cultures

Deaf Culture

American Deaf Culture

 Emo

Emo Music and Youth Culture

What exactly is 'emo' anyway?

 Gamer

Video Games' Place in America

Video Game Subcultures

Goth

Goth Subculture

World Goth Day

 

 Grunge

Grunge: A Success Story

Grunge: Music

 

Hippie

 Hippie: Subculture

Youth Culture and the Generation Gap

Hipster

The Hipster's Movement

Hipsters

 Juggalo

The Secret Life of Juggalos

Juggalo: The Insane Clown Posse

 Otaku

Nerd Nation: Otaku

Visual Kei Otaku Identity

 Otherkin

6 Modern Subcultures

Otherkin Timeline

 Prepper

Subculture of Americans

Bullets, beans, and Band-Aids

 Punk

No future? Punk is still the sound of youth rebellion

A Detailed Journey into the Punk Subculture

 Rave

The rave culture

How the Internet Transformed the American Rave Scene

 Rockabilly

Elvis is still king

The people who are STILL living like it's 1951

 Glam Rock

Glam Rock: A British Subculture

The Twisted Tale of Glam Rock

 LARPers

Play and the Subculture of LARPing

Can LARPing bring about social change?

 Skater

About Surfing and Skating Youth Subcultures

Skate Perception

 Steampunk

Steampunk's Subculture Revealed

Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds

 Straight Edge

The Twisterd World of a 'Straight Edge' Gang

Special Issue: Straight Edge Culture

 LGBTQ

About LGBT Youth Subculture

LGBT Historic Context Statement

 Potterheads

Texts by J. Rowling's Fans

Beyond Dumbledore's Army

 Cosplayers

Costuming as Subculture

Cosplay is Creative

Greasers

What is the Greaser Subculture?

Happy Days and Wonder Years

Zazou

Forties Subculture: Zazou

Swing Under Nazis

Vegans

Veganism as a Cultural Movement

Vegans in America

Flappers

Flappers

The Flapper

Amish

Amish Church

Who's Amish & Who's Not

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