Gegenkultur

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A Gegenkultur is a certain, long-term socially effective sub-group (subset) of a given human culture.Contrary to the subculture place - after J. Milton Yinger - their members the primary values and standards in question and develop their own system at social values and standards (see vision, utopia).

Examples of such Gegenkulturen finditself in the Pietismus, in the early workers' movement and in some youth cultures 20. Century (moving bird, 68er-Bewegung). A prime example for a modern Gegenkultur is the hard core Punk - movement.

See also: Underground (art), culture, subculture, Sociology, free spaces, creativity, innovation, individualism

literature

• Martin Ableitinger: Hard core Punk and the chances of the Gegenkultur: Analysis of a failed attempt; Publishing house Dr. Kovac, 2004. ISBN 3830016360
• Jospeh Heath, Andrew Potter: Consumer rebel -The myth of the Gegenkultur. Rogner & Bernhard, 2005 ISBN 3-8077-1008-6

Web on the left of

• documentation BREAKING THE RULES (2005) over emergence of the Gegenkulturen in America (English)
• http://www.cybartv.org Amsterdam Paris contrecultures 1950-90