SUBCULTURE AND THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY
SUBCULTURE AND THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: Our paper aims to analyze the subculture concept and phenomenon in the context of a knowledge-based society, considering various manifestations at the level of society and of the community, and implicitly the issue of their consequences. In this regard we have taken into account the potential factors that trigger or prevent the formation of subcultures, be they ethnical or conflictual, deviant or criminal. Our research also considers the current situation at European level, taking into account the demographics’ dynamics (the aging population and the strong influx of immigrants), seeking to explain the occurring trends linked to the multiplication of subcultures in the European area, especially in the EU, as a structure of the new Europe. The increase of the EU’s strength goes hand in hand with the increase of the different regions’ force, some of them hoping to become independent given the weakening of the national sovereignty (the post-sovereign era). The cultural, geographical and historical differences among historical region are obvious and important especially for the inhabitants, involving trends of subcultures’ manifestations (in Germany – the Länder have different cultures, and Belgium can be divided into the French and the Walloon areas).

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