The document defines and describes several countercultures including: the Beat generation of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s; cyberculture emerging from computer networks; Generation-X born in the 1960s-70s who feel directionless; hippies who reject established culture and advocate extreme liberalism; and the New Age movement rejecting modern Western values and based on spirituality.

1. Culture

2. Countercultures Beat generation -- a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired 2. Cyber-culture -- the culture that has emerged, or is emerging, from the use of computer networks for communication, entertainment and business.

3. 3. Generation-X -- the group of people who were born between the early 1960s and the middle of the 1970s, who seem to lack a sense of direction in life and to feel that they have no part to play in society X 4. Hippies -- someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle 5. New Age -- C onnected with a way of life that rejects modern Western values and is based on spiritual ideas and beliefs, astrology, etc.