ABSTRACT
A counter-culture is a minority culture marked by a set of values, norms and behavior patterns which directly contradict those of the dominant society. The optimistic booster society launched the longest economic boom in American history, which produced an unprecedented baby-boom lasting well into the sixties. The Quakers who believe in participatory democracy, went through a slow, steady decline in post-war America, and then boomed in the sixties as new meetings were founded around campus communities. The largest meeting in Massachusetts was right off Harvard Square. The driving force of Christianity has been built on the dialectical tension between the Old and New Testaments, between law and Gospel, between the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. Sectarian and counter-cultural movements have usually had two aspects, radical activists who seek politically to revolutionize society, and bohemians who withdraw from society to live in isolation.
