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Who are the informals?

Walking down the street past another party of young people, we involuntarily pay attention to brightly dressed, tattooed or specially combed people. "That's youth!" - we think. However, few of them ordinary people imagines that such clothes, hairstyle and tattoos can mean a lot. For us, of course, they mean little. But for young people who are going through a difficult period in their lives due to age, such clothing is a symbol of something special. What? Let's try to figure it out.

Informals - who are they?

Who are the informals? First of all, informals are social group. As a rule, the term refers to those young people who strive in some way to stand out from the society of the people around them. The desire for informal cultures usually arises in a person in adolescence. However, there are a large number of cases when people remain informal for a long time. This is due to a deep awareness of the ideas of the informal movement. Subsequently, such people become some kind of spiritual inspirers of youth. They are constantly surrounded by young people and do what is prescribed in the informal “set of rules” of their culture. Naturally, the set of rules does not imply the presence legal document. Rather, these are simply the views and traditions of a certain informal culture.

Perhaps the most common reason for the emergence of an informal group - this is Musical direction. The main informal cultures are formed from this yeast. For example, hippies, metalheads, rappers, indie and so on. Music has some kind of magical effect on young people. Famous music bands must feel enormous responsibility for what they convey from the stage. In order to understand who the informals are or what it means to be, for example, a metalhead, you need to love metal music. Without awareness of music and without its acceptance, no person will be truly accepted into this or that informal culture.

Another popular reason for the emergence of informal cultures is the political and historical situation. For example, Nazism in Germany was also an informal culture that grew into a killing machine on a global scale.

From this point of view, the history of the emergence of hippie culture is interesting. Initially there was a beatnik movement (from the word “beat” or “blow”). They can be considered the progenitors of all informal cultures of the modern world. The movement originated in the 50s in the United States of America. During the Second World War, many young people lost their parents, after which their generation was called broken. These young people expressed their grief and protest by dressing in ripped jeans, saggy sweaters and old sneakers. Compared to other schoolchildren in jackets and ties, the beatniks looked like beggars. Such clothing and the often provocative behavior of informals were a challenge to the traditional foundations of society. By the end of the 50s, by order of the US government, the drug LSD was invented, which was intended to destroy vulnerable youth. According to studies, up to 60% of active LSD users died from heart attacks. But the situation quickly got out of control. The drug has become a national problem. In that environment arose such great musical groups, How " The Doors", "Led Zeppelin" and " Rolling Stones"The musicians actively took drugs and wrote songs under their influence. The groups were very popular, which led to the formation of the hippie movement. These young people led a promiscuous lifestyle, used soft drugs, traveled from city to city to various music festivals. Their motto was famous expression: “Make love, not war,” which translated into Russian sounds like “make love, not war.”

Informals (“nefors”, “nifers”) are called almost all people whose way of thinking, behavior, habits and appearance are clearly different from the generally accepted. And since people are judged primarily by their clothes, it is easy to become informal in the eyes of strangers because of a non-standard (or vice versa, standard for some subcultures) hairstyle, clothes, accessories: side bangs or long hair (for men), sneakers with bright laces, baubles and so on. On the street, informal people are easily recognized by their special slang and often antisocial behavior, which demonstrates protest against social norms, standards and the system in general.

Unfortunately, the matter is often limited to external attributes, the use of a few words that are understandable only to a certain group of people, and self-conceit. And in vain - after all, in fact, an informal person is not a rebel who lives only for the sake of rebellion, but a person with special non-standard views on life and society. Well-read, thoughtful, with unconventional tastes, liberated and free from the boundaries that people create for themselves.

may not have a distinctive appearance and conspicuous paraphernalia, remarkable clothing, but have internal content, a special worldview and its own principles that differ from the generally accepted ones. Informals are also people who stand out not due to their own traits, but who attribute themselves to a specific social group, often a youth subculture, representatives of groups, organizations, movements, united by common interests and activities that are not the norm for society. Character traits

This subculture can often be traced in external attributes: clothes, shoes, hairstyle, the presence of piercings, special preferences in the color and cut of clothes, accessories and jewelry.

The word “informal” itself arose back in the 70s and 80s in the USSR as a contrast to a person related to the “formal” (state-approved) youth organization - the Komsomol, labor camps, sports, tourism, and dance clubs. Instead of participating in formal organizations operating in accordance with social stereotypes and the course of the country, some youth representatives (primarily students) created their own organizations. In contrast to the official ones, they were called “informal”.

Now representatives of most youth subcultures call themselves informals. Informal is a person, an individual who opposes himself, his views and activities to the mainstream, that is, to the preferences of the majority. What is characteristic of informals? First of all, novelty and a non-standard approach - they tend to deny the experience and ideals of past generations; the culture developed by their predecessors, including the classics, national traditions and features, is alien to them. The vocation of the informal is shocking; to amaze the public, to challenge it is his ideal of life. Because of such clashes for each value orientation, the concept of an informal environment as a counterculture is born - however, the majority in it are still aimed at consumption, rather than independent creativity. Avant-garde and focus on the future are its best features.

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Permitted by the authorities. In the mid-80s, employees of internal affairs bodies and local organizations of the CPSU called “informals” a variety of unofficial, amateur communities of young people - social initiative groups, interest clubs and teenage gangs. Initially, the word “informal” had a rather pronounced negative connotation and was not a self-designation for representatives of subcultures. IN colloquial speech

Abbreviated forms are also used - “nephors”, “nifers”, etc.

Story IN THE USSR youth subcultures in general there was not much variety. The reasons for this were probably censorship, inaccessibility foreign music

and periodicals, the impossibility of creating youth clubs not controlled by the Komsomol. The most massive and noticeable youth movement from the late 70s to the early 90s of the 20th century was the so-called “System” - a countercultural, demonstrative-carnival movement, the subculture of which was based on two countercultural styles: hippie and punk. Home characteristic feature youth subculture is its isolation, detachment, often demonstrative, shocking, from the cultural values ​​of older generations, national traditions . IN mass consciousness the perception of the youth subculture is often negative. Against this background, the youth subculture with its specific ideals, fashion, language, and art is increasingly being falsely assessed as a counterculture. Another characteristic feature of the modern youth subculture is the predominance of consumption over creativity. This is very negative feature , because truly joining cultural values occurs only in active independent cultural activity. The third characteristic feature of the youth subculture can be called its avant-gardeness, focus on the future, and often extremeness. Often these features are combined with the lack of a serious foundation of historical and.

cultural traditions

• baubles (bracelets made of threads or beads),
• ripped jeans.

In addition to the “System”, similar in spirit movements were also classified as “informals” - KSP (amateur song clubs), “Fandom”. The informals caused severe hostility among the bulk of the population, which often resulted in skirmishes and fights. The main enemies of the informals were the Lubers (teenage “jocks”). The informals tried to avoid meeting with them, even if they were outnumbered (the largest clash was in 1987 on the Crimean Bridge, many people on both sides were thrown into the water). The Luber movement existed for several years and disintegrated in 1990, giving way to growing informals.

Informal subcultures in the USSR

In the USSR, youth subcultures of a protest and extreme nature were generally underdeveloped and had an extremely narrow circle of adherents; Actively creative, romantic and altruistic subcultures were widespread. The reason for this was probably high degree isolation of groups of youth from each other and from society as a whole, wide coverage of the general mass of youth by a variety of interest clubs, accessibility of cultural institutions, mass introduction in schools of the official ideology of a positive orientation (“man is a friend to man, comrade and brother”), official censorship and dropout protest and negative material. At the same time, the inertia of official power and ideology led to the emergence of protest sentiments also in positive subcultures. The most common in the USSR youth subcultures were:

Lifestyle

The characteristic elements of which were:

• sessions(from English session) - “apartment” or underground concerts;
• hitch-hiking- trips;
• squats- unauthorized seizure of abandoned buildings and creation of communes;
• parties- traditional meeting places.

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Hussars, ladies, witches, payassas, bears, clearing their throats and wiping their faces frosty from the frost in the hall, entered the hall, where candles were hastily lit. The clown - Dimmler and the lady - Nikolai opened the dance. Surrounded by screaming children, the mummers, covering their faces and changing their voices, bowed to the hostess and positioned themselves around the room.
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After Russian dances and round dances, Pelageya Danilovna united all the servants and gentlemen together, in one large circle; They brought a ring, a string and a ruble, and general games were arranged.
An hour later, all the suits were wrinkled and upset. Cork mustaches and eyebrows were smeared across sweaty, flushed and cheerful faces. Pelageya Danilovna began to recognize the mummers, admired how well the costumes were made, how they suited especially the young ladies, and thanked everyone for making her so happy. The guests were invited to dine in the living room, and the courtyard was served in the hall.
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