Sub-Cultural groups are sensitive to contemporary trends in fashion,style and music.

A sub-culture group is a group of individuals who interact socially with each other and who are recognisable to outsiders as being a part of a group, for example ‘punks’ are a western sub-culture group that have evolved from the punk rock music genre. A ‘punks’ syntagm collectively is stereotypically rebellious and anti-establishment, outsiders can identify this through signifiers such as: rough/baggy clothes, shaved or spiked hair styles and usually an abundance of piercings. 
All groups consist of individuals with individual needs. Certain needs can be fulfilled within a social group.

The ‘punk’ genre is distinguished as it can fulfil multiple needs for an individual especially as adolescence, this is the period in which we grow socially and begin to associate ourselves with others while trying to rebel and break away from the elder authoritarianism life style. For example we look for trends within our needs such as in fashion, music and style and look to satisfy these needs when joining a group. Those who associate themselves with a sub-culture group can achieve a sense of belonging and loyalty from joining which in effect can boost an individual’s self-esteem when expressing aspects of their identity around those who share similarities. As spoken by Nicholson “we as people are attracted to those who share common interests”, these similarities can evolve and are contemporary to trends. Trends are significant when identifying groups they also act as a barrier between groups isolating them from each other each. However as the dawn of technology has took grasp on society it has become harder to distinguish social groups in public situations especially within teenage groups like socially and being active tend to take place online. 

As teenagers we strive to be socially accepted, however culture groups establish themselves on a set of culture codes these codes can vary between culture-groups they tend to focus around solidarity of the group. The punk ideology is cantered around not caring for authority and regularly socially at venues such as music events.