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 and How do Subcultural Identities Interact with Other Aspects of Self?
5. Who are the ‘Authentic’ Subculturists and Who are the ‘Poseurs’?
6. How Does Society React to Subcultures?
7. Where do Subculturists Hang Out, From the Local to the Global?
8. How Have Digital Technologies Influenced Subcultures?
9. What Happens to Subculturists as They ‘Grow Up’?
Biography
Ross Haenfler is Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, USA. His interests revolve around subcultures, music, and social movements, and his research focuses on how people engage in social change via lifestyle movements. He is the author of Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change (2006), and Goths, Gamers, and Grrrls: Deviance and Youth Subcultures (2012). He has published in a variety of journals, including Social Movement Studies, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, and Cultural Sociology, and has appeared in documentaries about straight edge and incels.
