Sociology / Unit 3 Soc 0326 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Counterculture
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The idea
A counterculture is a group whose patterns reject some central values of the wider society, defining itself in opposition rather than in mere difference.
In practice
A movement withdrawing from wage work and property to build a rival arrangement is a counterculture.
Where people slip
Societies routinely absorb countercultures, and the absorption blunts them.
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