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

   Students are a sub-cultural group that is sensitive to contemporary trends in fashion, style and music. This group is younger, often 16-18, than the rest of the western sub-cultural groups. Stereo typically, they all dress very similar to keep with current trends. A signifier of students is often an up to date phone and fashionable clothing, along with the way they talk by using abbreviations, are a syntam of a student.

    

    Maslow's hierarchy of needs gives some reasoning as to why a person would join a group that is sensitive to contemporary trends in fashion, style and music. The hierarchy suggests that you need friends before you can wok on self esteem, which is aided by your friends who you receive respect from. When you've achieved the self esteem you can do the parts in self actualization such as creativity. The creativity is what allows the trends to become sensitive. People also join a group to fulfill the need for a social status, in accordance to Gration, Reilly and Titford. The trends are also there for the need everyone has for group identification, if the group changes the way it's identified also will change.

     There are many codes that attract people to be in a sub-culture, even within culture there it is a code to be part of a group. There is code within the group to wear clothes of the same style, fashion in popular culture is sensitive, causing the group's style to be sensitive. The music is less sensitive as groups usually stick to a few popular artists. Other groups that are different to the stereotypical student will use fashion, style and music to show how they are separate to popular culture. There, there is a code to dislike the popular culture.