counterculture movement
Anti-mainstream social wave
A counterculture movement is an organized social phenomenon that rejects or opposes the dominant values, norms, and practices of mainstream society.
The term often evokes the 1960s—hippies, anti-war protests, free love—but countercultures emerge whenever groups collectively challenge prevailing conventions: The punk counterculture movement rejected both mainstream commercialism and hippie idealism.
Distinguished from mere subcultures by active opposition rather than passive difference.
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- turn onCause to operate
- subversionUndermining established authority
- communal livingShared domestic arrangement
- punk musicStripped-down aggressive rock
DIY ethic · civil rights · zines · underground press · free love · rebellion · eco-villages · environmentalism · nonconformity · psychedelic rock · avant-garde art · feminism · anti-establishment · outsider art · anti-war protests · protest songs · beat poetry · dissent
counterculture movementdominant culture
Society's prevailing belief system
conformity · mainstream · establishment · popular culture · mass culture
counterculture movementMoral Majority
Evangelical political advocacy group
religious right · neoconservatism · temperance movement · Victorian morality
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