Explain how the 1960s “hippie” cultural phenomenon could be viewed as a counterculture, and how this contrasts with subculture. Explain how and why counterculture can be co-opted and stripped of countercultural elements
Please provide the best answer for the statement.
1. The hippie movement saw itself as being in opposition to mainstream values, including materialism, the Vietnam War, proscriptions against drug use, support for free love, and so on.
2. This contrasts with subculture because those cultural norms and values required opposition to mainstream society, not simply difference from it.
3. Counterculture can be co-opted if mainstream society creates an image of it stripped of those elements that actually oppose mainstream values, leaving only trends and styles that are subcultural, as when Ben and Jerry’s or Magic Hat Brewing use nonthreatening elements of hippie culture in their marketing.
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