counterculture
[koun-ter-kuhl-cher]
- the culture and lifestyle of those people, especially among the young, who reject or oppose the dominant values and behavior of society.
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Origin of counterculture
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Sony Pictures Entertainment has put out some of the most countercultural, anti-authoritarian movies of the past century.
But with LSD, because it was countercultural, and because it was used as an experimental drug, it was not marketed properly.
Frances McDormand on 'Olive Kitteridge,' Dropping LSD, and Her Beef With FX's 'Fargo'Marlow Stern
September 3, 2014
Until that equation tips, individual Republicans may break ranks on gay rights, but the party remains a countercultural bastion.
One outward-focused and attuned to external valuations, the other more independent, rebellious, and countercultural.
The mainstream assimilation of countercultural values is no longer just a social phenomenon.
counterculture
- an alternative culture, deliberately at variance with the social norm
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Word Origin and History for countercultural
counterculture
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counterculture
A protest movement by American youth that arose in the late 1960s and faded during the late 1970s. According to some, young people in the United States were forming a culture of their own, opposed to the culture of Middle America. (See hippies and Woodstock.)
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