Many people navigate living within both the broader society and a subculture that connects people together within a smaller group.
Geoff Stahl of McGill University takes the conference title to heart, and contextualizes many of the concerns Straw raises within the development of the field as a whole.
A subculture is a group that lives differently from, but not opposed to, the dominant culture.
The cultivation and aestheticization of death do not mean that the Goths strive for it.