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In five pages this paper examines the concept of subculture in this informational overview that discusses its distinctive values, beliefs, norms, language, and artifacts with the primary focus being on the nature lover subculture with a consideration of its mainstream cultural differences in terms of slang, dress, values, and beliefs. Three sources are cited in the bibliography.
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a given group hold, the norms they follow, and the material goods they create" (Pan, Chaffee, Chu, & Ju, 1994, p. 15). The values that define a particular group
are shared abstract ideas and norms, or conduct standards each member is expected to follow (Pan et al, 1994). Group values are characterized by the performance of various rituals
and cultural artifacts that reflect the member beliefs. Within a culture several smaller groups or subcultures emerge that differ from the dominant culture in their preferred values, beliefs, ethical
norms, language, style of dress, lifestyle, and modes of behavior (Schaefer and Lamm, 1995). The nature lover subculture roots run deep and span both sides of the Atlantic. Back
in the nineteenth century, the American Transcendentalist intellectual and communal movement began in New England shortly after the 1836 publication of Ralph Waldo Emersons essay, Nature. A few decades
later in Germany, around the Bohemia region, young people began embarking upon a back to nature movement that resembled those of American Transcendentalists Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. These
Bohemians sought to become one with nature in a manner social philosopher Ernst Haeckel envisioned when he coined the term ecology (Kennedy and Ryan, 2003). As a result, a
number of German hiking societies developed with the Friends of Nature with its motto Free Mountains, Free World, Free People becoming in all likelihood the first nature lover subculture (Kennedy
and Ryan, 2003). Other similar German subcultures were organized including the Wandervogel group, with youth members between the ages of 14 and 18, and eventually grew to 50,000 (Kennedy
and Ryan, 2003). Their activities consisted primarily of nature walks and long hikes, and eventually these subcultures organized German wilderness camps (Kennedy and Ryan, 2003). When a huge
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