How is a subculture different from a counterculture? Group of answer choices : a) Members of a subculture actively protest and f
ight to change society, while members of a counterculture drop out of society. b) Both are distinct from mainstream culture, but only members of a subculture actively oppose important aspects of mainstream culture. c) Subcultures are always smaller than countercultures. d) Both are distinct from mainstream culture, but a counterculture actively opposes important aspects of the mainstream. e) Subcultures are not culturally distinct from the mainstream; they just occupy a particular geographic area.
In sociology, a subculture refers to a group of people within a larger culture that hold different ideas, values and ways of life than those of the mainstream, while still tied to their original culture. A counterculture is a <u>type of subculture that holds different values and ideas that are directly and actively in opposition to important aspects of the mainstream</u>. So while all countercultures are subcultures, not all subcultures are countercultures.
Some famous examples of countercultures were the hippie movement of the 1960s and the punks in the 1970s-1980s. They both explicitly rejected many aspects of the mainstream of the time and sought a lifestyle that directly opposed it.
The phrase invisible hand was introduced by Adam Smith in his book 'The Wealth of Nations'. He assumed that an economy can work well in a free market scenario where everyone will work for his/her own interest.
