Subcultures: the basics

1. What is a subculture?

2. How do subcultures emerge and why do people participate?

3. How do subcultures resist "mainstream" society ... and are they successful?

4. Who participates in subcultures?

5. Who are the "authentic" participants and who are the "poseurs"?

6. How does society react to subcultures?

7. Have subcultures gone virtual? Global? Where do subculturists hang out?

8. What happens to subculturists as they "grow up"?