Teorijske implikacije empirijskog istraživanja punk-scene u Hrvatskoj
Theoretical Implications of Empirical Research of the Punk Scene in Croatia

Summary/Abstract: Sociological researches in the field of youth subculture worldwide have lasted longer than half a century, and in the last twenty years, part of the researchers have been divided into "subculturalists" and "postsubculturalists", according to the interpretation of research notions in the recent social context. The key theses of both ingroups are related to social class, the relationships among musical taste, style and identity, to the boundaries between styles and to the role of media in the emergence and maintenance of subcultural styles. Considering the recently completed study of the punk scene in Croatia, the research notions are brought into connection with the contemporary framework of the debate. In the Croatian context, social class is an important dimension of the emergence of subculture, although none of the local authors considers it a determining category in terms of the subcultural theoretical tradition. The connections among musical taste, style and identity, which postsubculturalists claim are disappearing, were solidly, visibly and powerfully present in our research. Also, the postsubculturalists' thesis of permeable and fluid forms of gathering do not find their place in the research findings on the punk scene in Croatia, because in our case, there are firm and clear forms of belonging without large fluctuations in the relation between the core and the expanded circle of sympathizers. Theoretical implications of our research point to the need to overcome and to reject the division to subculturalists and postsubculturalists in this field.

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