What are the motifs in Subculture, the Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige?

Revolution is a recurring idea in the book. When Hebdige talks of style as subversion, he presents subculture as counterculture, as a pushing back of social space to make room not for the self, but merely for the freedom to choose an alternative. The mass culture weighs heavily on its participants, threatening to define and locate everyone and everything within its discourse. Subculture then is a bulwark against the decided, an attempt to eke out a small corner in which social fluidity is still possible, even if it means being subject to a narrower context.