Similarities Between American Culture And Hippies

Essentials of Sociology states that culture is “the language, beliefs, values, norms, and even material objects passed on from generation to generation.” (Henslin 40) The United States is big on American culture. Within America’s culture there are several subcultures. A subculture is a group of people who occupy only a small bit of the overall culture and develop different ways to communicate with each other. (Henslin 51) One of those subcultures found in America are what to be considered the “hippies”. There are similarities and differences between the culture of America and the subculture of the “hippies”.
Similarities are found in language and values. In both the American culture and the hippie subculture in America they both share the same