Subcultures have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:

a. they are subsets of the wider culture.
b. they always enjoy all the benefits of the mainstream culture.
c. they retain a level of cultural uniqueness that sets them apart.
d. they are neither inferior nor superior to mainstream culture.
e. they do not control society's major institutional structures.


b

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