London

'Streetlight by the River Thames with the Houses of Parliament', photo John Gay (1909-99). London, England, c.1940 from Victoria and Albert Museum Collection

Soon I will be walking around this mysterious city.

Modernism

This movement appeared in the middle of the 20th century defending the modern ideias instead of traditional ones. It began to modifying traditional beliefs and doctrines especially from the Roman Catholic Church. As such, the Modernism was a period that brought a storm of cultural, creative and artistic people to England. Several artists start to writte or to paint their feelings of life expressing freedom of thoughts. The modernism was getting stronger in methods of diffusion.

Everything was pretty and new! They lived for style, for fashion, for music and for drugs!Their ideology of live was living the moment and be extremely cool!

‘It was so exact, so precise, so neat, streamlined, clean, hard and totally expressive.’

Paul Weller, The ModFather,2003

"It's a Mod World.

Information Sources: http://www.rosehilldesigns.co.uk/; Wikipédia, the free encyclopedia.

Punk Ideology

This socio-cultural contesting movement appeared in the U.K. between the low social classes in 1977 rightly influenced by a north american music band called " The Ramones".

Differently from other previous movements the Punk ideologies startet by refusing the society as a whole very close to Anarchism. They believed that laws, government, order or control weren't necessary.

The violence and sarcasm were used to express their rebelion representing the agressive way they looked at things.

No offering other alternative it didn't become a coherent tendency and it failed as a social group. Nowadays some of these individuals still living in a disconnected position from society trying to survive in which they have always denied.

Information Sources: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1993 Edition; Wikipédia, the free encyclopedia; Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the 7th Edition.

Peace and Love Movement

Often having long hair and wearing brightly coloured clothes, the Hippie subculture appeared in the U.S.A in the middle of the 50's taking a very stronger diffusion to U.K and Western Europe society.

Such in unconventional appearance they were extremely careless in their aspect and clothes without taking up one residence or workplace. Frequently descending from traditional families, their ideology was based in a rejection of conventional values like an individual considered separately but a brotherly common life.

They also refused and contested the society as a consumer world depending on commodity of goods and services. Consciously critical they believed they could change the world exercising the "no-violence". Also sex was seen as a way of getting rid of all violence and sucess ardent desire inside of each one.

Often associated with drugs they criated the famous statement " Peace and Love".

Information Sources: The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1993 Edition; Wikipédia, the free encyclopedia; Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the 7th Edition.

Talking about Ideologies

"An ideology is a set of aims and beliefs that can be thought of as a way of looking at things, tendencies or a set of ideas proposed by a particular group of a society to all members of this society.

The main purpose behind an ideology is to offer change in society through a normative thought process getting influences in the way people behave."

based on the 7th edition Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary definition