subculturaladj.

1909 J. W. Fewkes Antiq. Mesa Verde National Park 34 It is yet too early in our study of prehistoric pueblo culture to make or define subcultural areas.

1958 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 9 159 Within the last thirty years in both the fields of sociology and psychology there has been an increasing awareness of sub-cultural and social class influences upon behaviour and in particular learning.

1979 Internat. Jrnl. Sociol. of Law 7 242 This order is not instilled by sanctions..but partly guaranteed by extra-legal normative structures (ethical norms, group norms, subcultural norms etc.).

1987 M. Rustin & M. Rustin Narrating Love & Loss Introd. 17 The proliferation of subcultural differences is in part an unavoidable consequence of cultural democratization.

1995 C. Griffin in C. Hollin Contemp. Psychol. v. xi. 216 Many youth sub-cultural groups value anti-authoritarian attitudes and defiance of ‘boring’ or restrictive adult society.

2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land ix. 92 Back then, ecstasy club culture was still on the margins of mainstream social structures; it was a subcultural, basically underground phenomenon.

1931 Times 28 Sept. 19/3 There seemed to be a close biological kinship between the sub-cultural defectives and the mass of normal persons—a kinship which could not be attributed to the pathological defective.

1933 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 2 The residual group of patients..may be termed the subcultural type. This type is..a collection of persons who are healthy, apparently sound neurologically.., but who lack intelligence.

1949 S. B. Sarason Psychol. Probl. in Mental Deficiency v. 114 In contrast to some other etiological groups relatively little is known about the early development of the garden-variety or subcultural defective.

1960 Brit. Jrnl. Preventive & Soc. Med. 14 155/2 In the..‘sub-cultural’ group of milder mental handicap, the main causes are traditionally considered to be heredity and a poor social environment.