ABSTRACT
Hippies have little respect for sociology, which they equate with the Establishment and particularly with the university. Furthermore, the college hippie wants to "turn on" and "tune in", but not to "drop out", at least not completely. Now, many students have awaited college as an opportunity to find other students of similar interests and to begin actively seeking out the likely groups of such students. Most of the hippies interviewed were freshmen and sophomores, although the leaders were upperclassmen or graduate students. While the campus hippies appear to be similar in dress, coiffure, grooming and in many aspects of their behavior, two categories are readily distinguishable—by their orientation toward political activism and personal hedonism. The hippies have been publicized and, to an important degree, shaped by the mass media. The extent and the impact of the hippie subculture—amplified as it is by new drugs, new music, new sexual morality and a new kind of war—may be, in some respects, unprecedented.
