Essays on Countercultures

In sociological terms a counterculture is a cultural group or subculture whose values and norms run counter to those of the established mainstream cultural views. It is in short social and cultural patterns that strongly oppose popular mainstream culture (Ballantine and Roberts 2011). Those involved in the process or act of inventing or embracing counterculture are often in disagreement with the morality that mainstream society advances. Countercultures often develop out of disadvantaged and marginalized groups. They emerge out of conflict with established mainstream cultures. Their mission is to draw attention to particular disparities and prejudice inherent in society and sometimes to ...

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Mainstream culture refers to the current of thought that is presently prevalent in a given community or society. This includes the popular culture and the media culture; whereas the former is the totality of ideas, attitudes, perspectives, images, and other phenomena that has something do and are within the mainstream of a particular culture most especially Western culture; while the latter refers to the current Western capitalist society that rose and developed under the wide influence of mass media. These three go hand-in-hand denoting what is popular, what is trendy—giving the masses the illusion of what they must have ...

Hipsters are a subculture of women and men typically between the ages of 16 to 30 years (Hiebert 2). This subculture values same qualities, which include individuality, progressiveness, counter-culture, and appreciation of art and indie-rock. Hipsters began in the 1940’s, and like most things hipster, the name of the subculture draws much from some other cultural movement, hipsters of the 1940s (Faulkner 1). This group was connected with calling each other hepcats, spending most their time smoking pot, and the modern jazz music. Hipsters reject mainstream societal norms that apply to dating preferences and traditional “rules” of physical ...