Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A culture, especially of young people, with values or lifestyles in opposition to those of the established culture.
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- noun Any
culture whosevalues andlifestyles are opposed to those of theestablished mainstream culture , especially towestern culture
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- noun a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
Etymologies
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Examples
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An extension of this argument can probably be made to reference Goffman's Counterculture Through the Ages, especially in light of Douglas Rushkoff's argument against the term counterculture ...
underground is a state of mind and repressed information wants to be free badger 2004
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I've always hated the term counterculture because it implies that we're the ones who are against culture, when it's really the authoritarian overculture that's so deadset against the fecund fertility of a living culture... but I should think a little more thoroughly because at this point this sentence feels like half-baked and warmed-over Hegel.
underground is a state of mind and repressed information wants to be free badger 2004
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Theodore Roszak, the author, scholar and critic who brought the term "counterculture" into the mainstream as he documented the social upheavals of the 1960s, has died.
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Theodore Roszak, the author, scholar and critic who brought the term "counterculture" into the mainstream as he documented the social upheavals of the 1960s, has died.
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Theodore Roszak, the author, scholar and critic who brought the term "counterculture" into the mainstream as he documented the social upheavals of the 1960s, has died.
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Theodore Roszak, the author, scholar and critic who brought the term "counterculture" into the mainstream as he documented the social upheavals of the 1960s, has died.
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It's counterculture from the Emo fad and the early days of Radiohead.
"Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. greygirlbeast 2010
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After surviving two heart surgeries, a heart attack, and addictions to cocaine, Vicodin, and red wine, and outliving many of his peers in counterculture comedy, George Carlin died yesterday at the age of 71.
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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A large and organized enough counterculture is as likely as not to establish a legal system that supercedes the host nation and is more agreeable to their ideals.
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The historical record of the counterculture is one of aspiration to cultivate the best in human beings, but it is also a record of the sordid deeds and speech-acts that sometimes followed in the wake of those aspirations.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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