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| + | '''Alternative culture''' is a type of [[culture]] which exists outside or on the fringes of [[mainstream]] or [[popular culture]], usually under the domain of one or more [[subculture]]s. These subcultures may have little or nothing in common besides the relative obscurity of their culture, but [[cultural studies]] uses this common basis of obscurity to classify them as '''alternative cultures''', or, taken as a whole, '''the alternative culture'''. Compare with the more politically charged term, [[counterculture]]. | ||
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Alternative means relating to a choice between two or more possibilities. It can also refer to something not traditional, outside the mainstream or underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle, alternative rock).
Alternative can refer to:
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Alternative culture
Alternative culture is a type of culture which exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures. These subcultures may have little or nothing in common besides the relative obscurity of their culture, but cultural studies uses this common basis of obscurity to classify them as alternative cultures, or, taken as a whole, the alternative culture. Compare with the more politically charged term, counterculture.
Alternative lifestyle
Alternative lifestyle, a lifestyle that it is not within the cultural norm
Alternative media
Alternative media, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
Alternative society
Alternative society, different models for society and social change
Alternative sexuality
Alternative sexuality, sexual lifestyles that fall outside the sexual norm
Etymology
From Middle French alternatif, from Medieval Latin alternativus, from the participle stem of Latin alternāre (“to do by turns”). Compare alternate.
