Swoi i obcy w społecznej przestrzeni subkultur
US and THEM in the social space of cultures

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the ways in which subcultures are strengthened by the category US - THEM and the means of manifesting that category conditioned by the type of subculture and the degree of its social openness. The presence or the active creation of THEM enables one to form the image of one’s own group and the conviction of its superiority, which becomes the basis for an unwritten code of behaviour of its members. The observation is concerned with the language of contemporary subcultures, for it is there that the attitude of the group towards the world is most fully revealed, it is there that social and group conceptions, values, principles and norms have been entrenched. The analysis is concerned with subcultures of different degrees of social bond: from the open hip-hop, through the spontaneous communitas of football fans to the closed subculture of prison, where social order is based on ritualized verbal formulae.

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