Alternate - Culture and Society

Culture and Society

  • Alternative comics, a genre of comic strips and books
  • Alternative comedy, a range of styles used by comedians and writers in the 1980s
  • Alternative culture, a variety of subcultures existing along the fringes of mainstream culture
  • Alternative dispute resolution, processes and techniques outside the traditional mainstream of jurisprudence
  • Alternative fashion, for example Gothic fashion, Punk fashion, Fetish fashion
  • Alternative lifestyle, a lifestyle that is not within the cultural norm
  • Alternative media, media practices falling outside the mainstreams of corporate communication
  • Alternative medicine, healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine
  • Alternative (Kamen Rider), a character in the Japanese TV series, Kamen Rider Ryuki
  • Alternative, an album by Pet Shop Boys
  • The Alternative (album), an album by IAMX

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