Skinheads subculture

The aim: To introduce skinheads youth subculture.
Skinheads, named after their shaven heads, are members of a subculture that originated in Britain in the 1960’s, where they were closely tied to the Rude boy of the West Indies and the Mods of the UK.
It's a common myth that the skinhead cult originated in Jamaica because of their early cultural affiliation with the Jamaican rude boy subculture in Britain at the time. This however is not true, as the skinhead cult evolved from white dock worker youth, who rolled their pants for obvious purposes and shaved their heads for prevention of lice.. Skinheads are a product of Mods, a subculture of youth noted for their consumerism and affection for style, music and scooters.
Skinhead culture exploded in the year 1969, after which the original skinheads slowly dropped into new categories, including the self-explanatory "Suede-head" and the next-stage group, the "Smoothies". Both groups existed as lapse versions of skinheads, whose fashions regressed to their mod roots.
Ideology:
In this presentation a symbolic approach will be used to explain the high rate of barbiturate misuse among youth movement namely skinheads. It will be argued that skinheads is youth social protest movement which has channelled its social protest through subcultural 'style' and symbolism. Neither group has developed an articulate coherent philosophy at the self-conscious level, rather both groups express their 'style' symbolically by dress, attitudes and behaviour. Both movements are working class in ethic, but whilst punks embody a total alienation from and rejection of conventional society, the skinheads identify with a militant working class ethic. Like many people in modern society, both groups have turned to bodily symbolism as a means of expressing themselves and their position in society. The punks and skinheads interviewed came from extremely disrupted and delinquent backgrounds which may be a general tendency...

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