Countercultures

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Simon and Schuster, 1984 - Social Science - 384 pages
From Simon & Schuster, Countercultures is J. Milton Yinger's exploration of the promise and peril of a world turned upside down.

Countercultures offers a new framework for analyzing tensions between the culturally established & the marginal, and discusses the emergence of countercultures in terms of ethical, epistemological, and aesthetic reversals of the status quo.
 

Contents

Promise or Peril
1
The Definition of Countercultures
18
The Sources of Countercultures
51
Varieties of Countercultures
89
Goodness Cultural and Countercultural
114
Beauty Cultural and Countercultural
132
Symbolic Countercultures
153
Countercultures Among the Disadvantaged
175
Countercultural Economic Institutions
210
Countercultural Religion
225
Countercultural Families and Sex Norms
253
Countercultural Education
272
Countercultures and Social Change
285
Bibliography
314
Index
355
Copyright

Politics
191

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John Milton Yinger was a sociologist who was president of the American Sociological Association.

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