counterculture
noun
the culture and lifestyle of those people, especially among the young, who reject or oppose the dominant values and behavior of society.
countercultures
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pluralof counterculture.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He said it was “the first installment in a history of L.A.’s countercultures and protesters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
“The physical remaking of San Francisco, its culture and countercultures, was inseparable from the flux of people and neighborhoods,” Isenberg writes.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 30, 2018
It’s easy to conclude that Beat culture, like other countercultures that followed, has been co-opted by a mercenary society — easy and a bit facile.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2016
Our capacity to create lifestyle subcultures and countercultures depends on our status and rebel instincts, and together these created the dynamic of oppositional cool consumption.
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2015
These models for interactivity and coordinated behavior may have been launched in the laboratory, but they were first embraced by countercultures.
From Open Source Democracy by Douglas Rushkoff
