More on Culture

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More on Culture

• Subcultures and Countercultures

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Subculture

• A cultural subgroup differentiated by status,
  ethnic background, residence, religion, or other
  factors that functionally unify the group and act
  collectively on each member
• Hicks as a subculture?
• Cliques within the student population as
  subcultures

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Counterculture

• A culture, especially of young people, with
  values or lifestyle in opposition to those of the
  established culture
• Seeks to change the dominant culture

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The 1920s

• After WWI, the birth of new social, sexual, and
  musical freedoms produced a countercultural
  backlash that resulted in the clashing of racial
  identities, gender roles, and ethnic disturbances
• Women asserting independence
• Flappers
• Prohibition and reaction against it
• Jazz and racial issues

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The 1930s

• Depression
• Class war?
• Sacco and Vanzetti (anarchy, controversial trial)
• Bonnie and Clyde (outlaws)
• Woody Guthrie (folk music, revolutionary, this
  land is your land)

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The 1940s

• Well

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The 1950s

• Post WWII
• Society generally conservative, rigid
• Military influence? Cold War beginning?
• Reactionary movements
• Civil rights
• Rosa Parks
• Malcolm X
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Black Panther Party (60s)
• The Beat movement

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The Beat Movement

• Jazz
• Drugs
• Sexual experimentation
• Rejection of materialism
• Key figures
• Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
• Allen Ginsberg

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The 1960s

• Children who grew up in the repressive 50s react
  against it
• Reaction against escalating cold war and Vietnam
• Womens liberation movement
• Betty Friedans Feminine Mystique
• The Pill and implications

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Hippies

• More drugs
• Marijuana
• LSD
• Dr. Timothy Leary
• Performed LSD experiements
• Turn on, Tune in, drop out
• Ken Kesey
• Acid Tests and the Merry Pranksters

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Hippies

• Questioning Authority
• Dont Trust Anyone Over 30
• Anti-war movement
• Protests
• Draft Dodgers

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Music

• Protest Music
• Bob Dylan
• Psychedelic Music
• Jimi Hendrix
• The Grateful Dead

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The 70s 80s

• Not much in terms of counterculture
• Reaction against counterculture movement of 60s?
• LGBT movement
• Harvey Milk
• The Punk Movement
• Anti-establishment, anti-authority, etc.
• Sex Pistols, Ramones, Clash, Dead Boys

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The 1990s

• Environmentalism
• Anti-globalization movement
• Reaction to Americas foreign policy
• WTO/IMF/World Bank
• Musical background
• Punk, Folk
• Rage Against the Machine
• Grung

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The 2000s

• Reaction to war in Iraq/war on terror/Bush era
  policies?
• What are contemporary counterculture movements?
• Will we ever see such a massive, relatively
  uniform counterculture movement, like we did in
  the 60s, again?