The Counterculture Of The 50's: An Analysis

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In the last section of the book Ortner focus on the counterculture of the 50s, the relationship between money and happiness, and gender. Given that the construction of the self is a result of family background and the environment, the Beats movement of the 50’s had a great impact on the individuals that got involved on it. The Beats movement was a counterculture/radical political movement(s) […] that mainly criticized the political and economic violence of the dominance culture as well as the conventionality and repressiveness of bourgeois lifestyle of the time (2003:185). Of course the Beats had different effects on the outcome of the individual in regards of their socioeconomic background in accordance with the examples that Orter gives.