“Hippies are usually understood as counter-cultural rather than subcultural: as John Robert Howard has put it, they ‘posed a fairly well thought-out alternative to conventional society’ and, importantly for the notion of a counter-culture, there was some sense that this alternative mode of living ‘would induce change in the rest of society’ (Howard 1969: 43; see also Roszak 1970). Very few subcultures have widespread social change on their agenda, nor (with some exceptions) do they imagine that society’s values ought somehow to reflect or absorb their own. But counter-cultures do, so that it is commonplace to suggest, for example, that hippies ‘made a lasting impact on the ethos of America’ (Miller 1991: 3) or that ‘hippie values’ are indeed broadly shared or symphatised with.”
Hippies, "Summer fo Love", Califórnia (1967)
Teddy Boys, Inglaterra (50s)