The term to define consists of two words with different meanings. Whereas the term "Youth" is clear to everybody, we firstly have to define what aspects the word "Culture" deals with. „Die ‚Kultur' einer Gruppe oder Klasse umfaßt die besondere und distinkte Lebensweise dieser Gruppe oder Klasse, die Bedeutungen, Werte und Ideen, wie sie in den Institutionen, in den gesellschaftlichen Beziehungen, in Glaubenssystemen, in Sitten und Bräuchen, im Gebrauch der Objekte und im materiellen Leben verkörpert sind."(1)
             That means culture is the way people act and behave after experiencing the way of living in their specific social class. We can consider that during their childhood working-class youths especially get to know all ideologies and values of working-class culture. That is very important in terms of forming groups and gangs where members have the same behaviour and values.
             Furthermore A. Cohen utters "Menschliche Handlungsweisen hängen von der Art der Probleme ab, die jeder bewältigen muß".(2) These problems differ from one class to the other, which means a person who lives in the working class has to deal with other problems than an upper class person.
             Every society is built up of a variety of cultures, e.g. working-class culture and upper-class culture, which each have certain subgroups and subcultures.
             The "Youth Cultures" in post-war Britain developed in the working class. After childhood they tried to invent or in some way change their origin culture. Due to that fact we can conclude that "Youth Cultures" are a subculture of working-class culture. Downes puts forward the thesis that „Subkulturen [sich] zusammenfinden, um kollektiv erfahrene Schwierigkeiten zu lösen."(3) Working-class youth had common problems and difficulties therefore they got together and tried to raise the attention of society for their conflicts. How tw...