The Beginning Of Youth Subcultures- The Bowery Boys.

The Bowery Boys were an anti-Catholic and anti-Irish gang who were based North of the  points district in New York city in the mid 19th century.

The very first youth subculture [the Bowery Boys] were portrayed as a negative group.

The Bowery boys are a youth subculture because...




The do have a dress code- The Bowery boys dressed in black high beaver hats, red shirts, black flared trousers, high heeled calf skin boots ad black vests with oil slicked hair. They created a collective identity and chose how to portray themselves.

Rebellion- Most of this group took part in the New York City riots in 1863, they took part in the looting while fighting with rival gangs.

Cultural practices- the crime they were involved in. The peer pressure with in the group.

Conformity- The members conformed to the criminal acts that the group committed.

The marginalised themselves by distancing their dress code and behaviour from the subcultures around them.

Opinion Leader- he was thought to have been a boy called Mose the fireboy according to ''The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld''.