SOCIETY, Subculture

So far as it is collaborative, a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would otherwise be difficult on an individual basis; both individual and social (common) benefits can thus be distinguished, or in many cases, found to overlap.

A society can also consist of like-minded people governed by their own norms and values within a dominant, larger society.

This is sometimes referred to as a subculture, a term used extensively within criminology and also applied to distinctive subsections of a larger society.