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So far I have not done any research about my subculture [CRU] except where they meet and what time. I plan to attend my first meeting this coming Thursday night at 9pm at Pruis Hall. About 300 students meet there every week for worship. A friend I plan to go with attends the group regularly. I am going to interview her along with others I meet at CRU. I want to ask questions such as 1. what made you come and join CRU? 2. What makes you keep coming back? 3. What do you get out of these meetings? 4. How do you apply these club meetings to your life and personal relationships? 5. Do you ever feel stereotyped for being here? If so, like what? Those are some of the questions I plan to ask. I also plan to interview outsiders of different race, sex, and hobbies. I want to ask them their views on someone attending a bible study, why they don't go, their beliefs etc. I hope that I can get an overall common view about how a "believer" is looked upon. I expect to hear that individuals attending CRU or any bible study are usually "different" in a way that there sense of fun is different from most people because they enjoy sitting at home talking about the bible "all the time" and they don't enjoy shopping for high dollar clothes or partying. Some may be true in some situations and some may not. But I expect to hear a variety of different views hopefully all with a common similarity. I plan to do only a small amount of research on different types of religion and how different types of Christianity can all become "one" in a large setting. I think really all research is the same. The only difference in research is the purpose in which you are doing it. I think if you are doing for school, or hoping to learn it is academic. If you are looking into something for other reasons not intending to learn anything I suppose that would be "non-academic" but really in most cases any research will result in some sort of learning.