Subcultures and How They Form

After reading more into Subcultures, i have definitely learnt more about why they started, i started my researching only really knowing that they started by wanting to be different to everyone else and that there wers some cultural and social issues behind it but after reading more into it, there were very strong social class and political issues to why people deferred from the social norm. The times were very different, political termoil, especially in the thatcher years, people were treat very differently to how we are treat now. Radical Punks, Green Hippies, Working class Skinheads, they all had different but very similar reasons for creating subcultures. I mean, how can we say there are subcultures now? it depends how you look at it really, you can call people a subculture just because they are different, yes. But can you say they are the same type of subculture as the ones from the 1900's? Im not convinced, like Dick Hebdige says, you need a long term struggle or something to rebel against, music and style to be a subculture, and to me without having that reasoning behind it, theres no context other than style.