Synopsis
Who are hipsters, what lifestyle does it represent, how do hipsters distance themselves from mainstream culture?
- Programme: Peter York's Hipster Handbook
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2016
- Sociology | How are youth subcultures formed? Why do they develop? | Theoretical views of the role of youth culture and subcultures: functionalism, Marxism/neo-Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, subcultures.
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