Are youth subcultures genuine signs of revolt or simply the manifestation of style?

Youth subcultures are youth-based subcultures with distinct styles, behaviors and interests. According to subculture theorists, members of a subculture often signal their membership by making distinctive and symbolic tangible choices in, for example, clothing styles, hairstyles and footwear. Gender, ethnicity and social class are important to youth subcultures as they can be defined in terms of modes of expression or lifestyles. When we talk about youth subcultures what we are doing are categorizing and labelling people such as punks, ravers, hippies etc. Cohen argues that there are two main components of the lifestyle of such youth subcultures, which he terms 'plastic' (dress and music) and 'infrastructural' (argot and ritual). What he is saying is that the musical preferences of these groups were intimately connected to the nature of their lives. As l mentioned before class is important, and we can see throughout the years how youth subcultures are defined in class position. In the 1950's the youth subculture known as Teds were labelled as unskilled working class. In the 1960's Rockers and Mods were labelled as middle class to unskilled. In 1967 Rude boys were black underclass and Rastas and punks were once again black underclass with dreadlocks and the punks working class who enjoyed listening to punk rock. To a certain extent yes, l believe that youth subcultures are a genuine sign against rebellion, but at the same time l also believe that it it simply a group of people who share the same interest in music which are brought together and wish to express themselves in terms of what they wear.