healthy lifestyle is exercise. Working out helps control body fat and can prevent certain health conditions and diseases. As people are captivated by the goal of having a healthy and muscular body, this obsession can lead to the deviant behavior of bodybuilding. A deviant behavior is an act that departs from the usual or accepted social standards. Questions that many ask are, “Why do bodybuilders want to have a body that is so abnormal? As well as, why do they exercise so often?” Bodybuilders workout
of “culture” as opposed to “nature.” At the time, Dick Hebdige, a cultural studies scholar, shifted his attention to the study of subcultures. He believed that the subversive power of subcultures could be useful to further understand misconceptions of natural, and supposedly immutable, aspects of society. In 1979, he published his book Subculture: The Meaning of Style, exploring the subcultures’ styles as powerful tools to resist the apparent “natural” culture imposed by the dominant culture. Inspired
Eng. 1400 Dr. DuBose The History and Evolution of a Huge Subculture Many subcultures have derived since the beginning of time. They could be classified through religion, culture, style, outlook on life and many other aspects. The one subculture that has grown tremendously through out time is a very hard one to notice as a subculture opposed to a sport. Its said that bodybuilding started way back in the times of great philosophers like Plato who believed that a man should strive for a
music. And through this Urban Sociology course, I have been given an assignment that subject is ‘Subculture’. I never noticed bodybuilder before I got this assignment. While I was thinking about what I research, I could notice people who are working out at the same gym as me. I was thinking that I can find subculture among the people who work out because working out is definitely mainstream culture now. At that time, I realized how about the bodybuilder, they are more special, they take steroids
There are many subcultures in the United States that are strange to me that some people think are completely normal. A subculture is a cultural group within a larger culture that has the same interests, beliefs, behaviors, or religion. Subcultures varies from things like southern food culture, to things like bodybuilding. The strangest subcultures to me are the vampires, and the bronies. There were some more in mind, but these are the two that stood out the most to me. Strangely enough, vampires