The Teddy Boy Subculture Culture Essay
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This feeling comes out as expression in rituals of that subordinate group. The teddy boys, mods, the rockers, the skinheads and the punks, all have been dismissed, denounced and sanctified, and have been treated as a threat to public order (Hebdige, 1979). Most mundane objects like safety pins, a shoe style or a motorbike, become an identity for a subculture (Hebdige, 1979).