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    anything mainstream is not cool anymore. Mark quotes the social critic Thomas Frank‚ saying he called this type of hipster the ”the rebel consumer” and later on defined it as‚ “the person who‚ adopting the rhetoric but not the politics of the counterculture‚ convinces himself that buying the right mass products individualizes him as transgressive. Purchasing the products of authority is thus reimagined as a defiance of authority” (7). Hipsters would very often violated the norms of what was socially

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    really positive outcomes. Individuality was a major key in that era. “If I am scorned and called dirty because I allow hair to grow on my face and my head‚ then so much the better‚ for by this I indicate the seriousness of my belief.” (”Hippie Subculture”). Confidence in being who you are also increases the value of one´s life‚ which the hippies noticed and believed in strongly. Another one of their well known goals was to bring light and gain awareness in the world about different important conflicts

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    Cultures are made up of beliefs‚ norms‚ customs‚ and so much more. The diffusion of cultures allows for subcultures and countercultures. Diffusion allows cultures to share with each other and see much more of what there is outside of the circle they are in. The United States is a combination of different cultures. It is basically a thousand subcultures combined into a larger one. Subcultures are smaller cultural groups within a larger culture (Keirns‚ et al.‚ 2015). There are so many ethnicities

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    Part 1 of 1 - 25.0 Points Question 1 of 25 1.0 Points According to Max Weber‚ the Protestant ethic was a central factor in the birth of ________. A. capitalism Question 2 of 25 1.0 Points Karl Marx suggested that the force which drives human history and is at the core of human progress is ________. A. class conflict Question 3 of 25 1.0 Points The concept used to describe opening a window into unfamiliar worlds that allows us to understand human behavior

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    trendy counterculture image. High volume and mass appeal are at the core of one-stop-shop retailers like Sears and Wal-Mart. These stores are the culture others are trying to counter. Wal-Mart relies on mass production of the products they sell to keep manufacturing and shipping costs down. This allows them to maximize profitability. Profitability is not at the core of counterculture; unique style and individualism are. Counterculture is the alternate of culture‚ even a subculture. For an

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    society‚ but with many aspects in common. Subcultures come in a diversity of forms‚ associated with street gangs‚ prison inmates‚ drug addicts‚ football hooligans‚ religious cults‚ hippie communes‚ and punk rockers. On a larger societal scale‚ subcultures include working-class and underclass subcultures‚ racial/ethnic subcultures‚ immigrant subcultures‚ regional subcultures‚ and youth subcultures. Hippie Subculture The existence of many subcultures is characteristic of complex societies such

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    Carline Dambreville Behavior Analysis Paper Introductory Sociology April 3‚ 2012 New York Time Article Summary: This article reports on an enormous cultural change in American society. For the first time in U.S. history‚ more than half (53%) of the children being born to mothers under the age of 30 are doing so outside of marriage. The analysis in the article is that this is due to two major cultural shifts: 1) women are becoming more and more economically successful and independent

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    bodies‚ opposed the Vietnam War and the usage of nuclear weapons as well as criticized the values of the middle class. In addition‚ the hippies were vegetarians and eco-friendly besides promoting the psychedelic drugs-recreational- usage. The hippie subculture formed their own societies‚ employed usage of drugs in the exploration of substitutes of consciousness states‚ advocated for the revolution of sex‚ religious tolerance‚ paid heed to psychedelic rock and also tried to alter the attitudes and views

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    group in society * Subcultures: the culture of groups whose values and norms of behavior are somewhat different from those of the dominant culture. * Smaller cultural groups that exist within but differ in some way from the prevailing culture interest sociologists. * Members of subcultures typically make use of distinctive language‚ behaviors‚ and clothing‚ even though they may still accept many of the values of the dominant culture. * Countercultures: subculture created as a reaction

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