2011-№1(30) Article 4
A. V. Solovyev
Consumption society and counterculture in the USA in the second half of the 20th century. р.37-46
UDC 930.85
The article analyzes the socio-cultural situation and the formation of consumption society and counterculture in the USA in the second half of the 20th century. The paper also treats the consequences of the total commercialization of the American society and the formation of counterculture as a reaction to the predominance of material values.
сonsumption society, commercialization of society, the USA, counterculture, values, spiritual sphere, consumerism, cultural leftist, hippie.
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