Informals: Who is Who? Made by :Chasovskaya O, Epifanova E. Surgut, 2006

The aim of the project: To find out the peculiarities of different informal youth groupings. The practical task: To collect information about informal teenagers: their life styles, ideas, attitude towards other youth groupings.

Subculture is… Subculture is the behavior, beliefs and customs of a particular group of people within a society. Often it is a group whose behavior is a disapproved of by most people and whose interests different from those of the mainstream culture.

Some classify this type of people like drug users and rock and roll fans, since their behavior differ from social norms. They don’t conform to society’s standards and support a liberal attitude and lifestyle. They always want to change the world to the best.. Hippies wore unusual clothes. Girls for example, often wore Indian-style silk dresses and both a men and women usually had long hair.

A young person who dresses in a shocking way to express his or her identity( who somebody is). He or she has brightly colored hair and wears metal chains. The person is thought to rebel against the society. The music is aggressive. They reject everything

All persons who ride 2 or sometimes 3 wheeled motorized vehicles and who identify themselves with a particular subculture

A young person who wears a leather jacket, army boots and a cowboy hat just to show off. He is associates with something rebellious.

They cut their hair shorter than others do. The majority of them are working class, patriotic, reggae and football fanatics, and very uninterested in politics. Most wear tight trousers and heavy boots (Doc Martens) and are usually regarded as violent and aggressive.

“Roleviki” are people,who play games. The regional hobbits gatherings can be thought the first role games. Games can be divided into 3 group :range games at open fields and forests. The participants follow definite instructions, use swords bows and archers in their fights. The next group is computer games. People of different ages rent ages play computer games in Internet.And the third type- is so called desk games like “Dungeon and Dragons”. The participants transform into hobbits, elf's, kings and queens. The members of these group don’t use drugs and alcohol. The most popular persons among this subculture are fantasy writes : Tolkien, Zhelyazny, Lukjanenko, Perumov,Struatskiye,Bulgakov.

These are the folks who use computer-made, synthesized music, and drugs to create massive all-might dance parties in empty warehouses. They like to be in a collective. They want to try out all sort of options and are thought to be violent.

They are the “wizards” of the computer community; people with a deep understanding of how their computers work, and can do things with them that seem “Magical. They do not protest against their parents.

The members of this subculture wear the blackest black, with a lot of silver jewellery and have very black hair and look as thin and pale as possible. The members gather together to read Bram stocker and talk about being vampires, and about the end of the world. The name Goths comes from the neo Gothic period of literature with its atmosphere of mystery and terror and stories about Dracula and Frankenstein.

This art was born in the USA. It began with writing a person’s name on a wall. Taki 183 is considered to be the first to do it. Afterwards simple pictures appeared on walls, but no one was interested in those pictures, people just found it cool to draw them in such unusual places. It is the first time when “Legal” walls appear. Graffiti becomes commercial and most painters leave streets and open their own galleries.

Our results: People are not bad- they are different. We should take people as they are with their strong and weak features, strange appearance and unusual behaviour.

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