Subculture vs Macroculture - What's the difference?
subculture | macroculture |
A portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features.
* 1974 , Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding , page 7.
(biology) A culture made by transferring microorganisms from a previous culture to a fresh growth medium
(biology) To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture
* {{quote-book, 1990, Heidi F. Kaeppler et al., Silicon carbide fiber-mediated DNA delivery into plant cells, Plant Cell Reports
, passage=Cultures were subcultured by 20-fold dilution into fresh MS2D medium approximately every 7 d. }}
The dominant culture in a society, its overculture.
As nouns the difference between subculture and macroculture
is that subculture is a portion of a culture distinguished by its customs or other features while macroculture is the dominant culture in a society, its overculture.As a verb subculture
is (biology) to transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture.subculture
English
Noun
(en noun)- The goth subculture has its own mode of dress, and it has a characteristic musical style.
- Like those activities, bodybuilding is an obsession, a living (for a few), and a way of life for the people involved in it—a subculture , in a word, with its own values, aesthetics and vocabulary.
Verb
(subcultur)citation