microculture

"Do not underestimate the power of the microculture that is generated among the cardinals when they are together.

"Hockey is still a microculture of New York City.

"Most worlds have this microculture.

His study of secrecy also looked at the micro-secret as an aspect of meaning-control within the individual microculture.

The study of kinesics - the nonverbal behavior of the small gathering - can be used to illuminate the dynamics of a given microculture.

Microculture refers to the specialised subgroups, marked with their own languages, ethos and rule expectations, that permeate differentiated industrial societies.

Each setting recreates with impressive fidelity the microculture of the birds that fly merrily about within their diorama world, complete with living plants.

The early years of the internet saw connectivity limited to a small number of computer-savvy Netizens with their own emerging netiquette or microculture.

There has always been the equivalent of the Novices group, for example, allowing entrance to the soccer microculture for any boy willing to learn the rules of being a fan.

Acknowledging LSD's value in psychotherapy, Dr. Cohen wrote of his concern over its abuse by the "beatnik microculture," warning that this could set back serious research for years.

In The Night Watch, the hero's mentor, urging him not to abandon his supernatural colleagues, points out that every profession has its own microculture outside of which a certain isolation is inevitable.

A microculture - whether formed by a racetrack, a university, a holiday camp or a pub - can be seen as having its own social micro-climate, with values and norms of behaviour of its own, to an extent differing from those of the general culture.

If you follow the leads, this Everest of electric-guitar virtuosity, like so many other online artifacts, turns out to be a portal into a worldwide microculture, this one involving hundreds of highly stylized solo guitar videos, of which funtwo's is but the most famous.

A microculture depends on the smallest units of organisation - dyads, groups, or local communities - as opposed to the broader subcultures of race or class, and the wider national/global culture, compared to which they tend also to be more short-lived, as well as voluntarily chosen.