The aim of this graduate thesis is to explain the concept and definitions of subculture, i.e. contraculture, period, manner and reasons of emergence, and the basic division and characteristics. In addition to the general characteristics, part of the work explores the situation in Croatia and Osijek. It aims to explain the theories of Chicago and Birminham schools and their representatives, the theory of delinquency and the notion of labeling and the concept of moral panic and the role of mass media in building anxiety in society. The term subculture that marked the American sociology of the deviations of the 1950s began to lose during the 1960s, making the way to a series of social movements and styles called contraculture, so it could return to the Bushman School in the seventies and eighties, marking British and later planetary widespread lifestyles and identities of young people like rockers, skinheads, punks, football hooliganism etc. Sociologists who declared the death of the concept considered it good for the 1960s, but not for the postmodern fluid dynamics in which the individualization, intermingling of styles and the fact that they do not really belong to one of the life styles. Still, with new concepts and geography of youth cultures, some authors find that it is still the most appropriate notion. Some elements of subcultural groups have become part of the mainstream or part of everyday culture.