Counterculture

A member of the punk subculture riding the Vienna U-Bahn

A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.[1][2] A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. When oppositional forces reach critical mass, countercultures can trigger dramatic cultural changes. Prominent examples of countercultures in the Western world include the Levellers (1645–1650),[3] Bohemianism (1850–1910), the more fragmentary counterculture of the Beat Generation (1944–1964), and the globalized counterculture of the 1960s (1965–1973).[4] Countercultures differ from subcultures.

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  2. ^ Eric Donald Hirsch. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-65597-8. (1993) p. 419. "Members of a cultural protest that began in the U.S. In the 1960s and Europe before fading in the 1970s... fundamentally a cultural rather than a political protest."
  3. ^ Outhwaite, William, ed. (2008). "Counterculture". The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (2nd ed.). Malden: John Wiley & Sons. p. 120. ISBN 9780470999011. Retrieved November 10, 2020.
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