counter culture
Anti-mainstream social movement
Counterculture is a way of life that deliberately rejects mainstream society's values and norms.
The term emerged in the 1960s to describe youth movements opposing conventional attitudes about war, sexuality, and authority: the counterculture of the sixties.
Any subculture defined by opposition to dominant culture qualifies: punk counterculture, online counterculture.
Also spelled as two words.
- 1960s countercultureSixties anti-establishment movement
- countercultistAntiestablishment movement adherent
- Beat GenerationFifties literary counterculture movement
- drop outLeave before completing
- turn onCause to operate
rebellion · alternative · protest · underground · Black Panther Party · activism · bohemian lifestyle · freak flag · anti-establishment · avant-garde art · anarchism · hippie movement · flower power · peace movement · radicalism · civil rights movement · nonconformity · heterodoxy
counter culturemainstream
Dominant cultural current
conformity · dominant culture · establishment · orthodoxy · traditionalism
counter culturehegemony
Dominant group's control
cultural hegemony · high culture · elite culture · mass culture · pop culture
counter culturedominant culture
Society's prevailing belief system
mass culture · popular culture · high culture · corporate culture · consumer culture