This term can be defined in two ways, first it can be defined as an attack on the prevailing culture, and second it is considered as an optional culture that is on the side of the market and the mass constitutional media.
This term is used specifically to describe a structured and important movement, whose activity affects many individuals and lasts for a considerable time. The counterculture has been the construction of all the projects and dreams of a certain social group. In short, the counterculture is all that community and cultural movement that is characterized by being against cultural values.
There are various countercultural manifestations: there are the so-called urban tribes, which are made up of those young people interested in discovering an identification, an identity that neither the family nor society has been able to offer them. The strike groups are those composed of criminal gangs who are responsible for attacking and violently destabilize the system already established. The social groups alternative, are those who walk in search of a meaning to life through different means opposing social materialism.
The counterculture is considered by many as partially peaceful and transitory customs, when this occurs they are considered subcultures, that is, a derivative of the prevailing cultures that are not effectively opposed to it. From an epistemic point of view, the counterculture can be considered as something deceptive, since it makes a certain community that presents counter-conventional characteristics to the reigning culture perceive, as a totally autonomous culture.
