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Question: What do you understand by the terms “mainstream culture” and “counter culture” in reference to the 1960’s? Discuss with reference to any three of the disciplines represented in Block 6: History, History of Science, Religious Studies, Music and History of Art.
Answer: The 1960’s were a period of history which witnessed a vast amount of cultural change. This change swept across the whole of society, but particularly amongst the young. There was a shift away from the ‘mainstream’ Western culture when the ‘counter-culture’ came about and created a change in the ideas and behaviour of a whole generation of people. It is possible to find examples of this is any number of fields but it was particularly notable in the areas of art, science and religion.
In order to examine mainstream and counter cultural events we first have to determine what these extremely broad terms mean, particularly with reference to the 1960’s. The ‘mainstream’ was the conservative attitudes and practices which had been in place for centuries such as: the social class system...(short extract)
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- Subject: History
- Course: British Economic and Social History
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 80%
- Words: 1908
- Date submitted: January 26, 2009
- Date written: July, 2004
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 357
