Recent debate on the conceptualisation of youth cultures has been characterised as an irreconcilable stalemate between materialist defenders of a version of subcultural theory derived from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and post-subcultural theorists who favour more individualised understandings. This article suggests that, beneath this façade lies a more complex and reconcilable ...

The main theme in the sociology of youth subcultures is the reladon between social class and everyday experience. There are many ways of thinking about social class. In the work of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu the main factors involved are parents' occupation and level of education. These have signilicant effects on the life chances of their children. Social class is not a social grou...

BACKGROUND Various differentiation-inducing agents or harvesting of spontaneously late post-confluence cultures have been used to differentiate the human colon carcinoma Caco-2 cell line. We report a new procedure to generate pre-confluent subcultures of Caco-2 population at various stages of differentiation without altering culture conditions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ultrastructural analysis, ...

Abstract According to Peter Galison, the coordination of different “subcultures” within a scientific field happens through local exchanges “trading zones.” In his view, workability such trading zones is not guaranteed, and science necessarily driven towards further integration. this paper, we develop apply quantitative methods (using semantic, authorship, citation data from literature), inspire...

Bone marrow cells have been used for testing biocompatibility of bone substitute materials that would be applied in maxillofacial and orthopedic surgeries. However, it remains unclear whether cells in serial subcultures retain the ability to differentiate into osteoblasts. The purpose of this study was to compare the development of osteoblast phenotype of serially passaged cells from human bone...

BACKGROUND In recent years there has been increasing interest in transferring new knowledge into health care practices, a process often referred to as implementation. The various subcultures that exist among health care workers may be an obstacle in this process. The aim of this study was to explore how professional groups and managers experienced the implementation of a new tool for lifestyle ...