THE EFFECT OF THE COUNTERCULTURE OF THE SIXTIES IN WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK.
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Title
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THE EFFECT OF THE COUNTERCULTURE OF THE SIXTIES IN WOODSTOCK, NEW YORK.
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Identifier
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AAI8713756
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identifier
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8713756
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Creator
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EICHENSTEIN, ROSALIND.
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Contributor
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Stanley Migram
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Date
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1987
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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This study was designed to assess the effects of the counterculture of the nineteen sixties in a community setting twenty years later. Although considered in its time a response to widely experienced dislocations of values and lifestyle, twenty years later it has been redefined as a youth-led movement that faded as its supporters grew older. Woodstock was chosen because it was a center for the counterculture in the sixties yet in the eighties is a pluralistic community which is home to corporate employees, descendants of farming families as well as former and present members of the counterculture.;Community and individual were understood to have a reciprocal effect on one another and both were employed as units of measurement. The community as a whole was studied by reading local history and Census data, by participant observation of the political process and by interviews with residents. In addition, a systematically chosen sample of 60 individuals was interviewed using a questionnaire and a structured interview. Within this sample, those who had been involved in the counterculture were compared to those who had not in terms of values and way of life.;The major finding in terms of individual choices was that those who had been involved in the sixties had come to Woodstock not only in the sixties but in the seventies and eighties with the understanding that they were trading financial security and a career centered way of life to live among like minded people who valued community. Those who had not been involved in the counterculture came to Woodstock for reasons of work or family. Each group had a different pattern of community participation.;In terms of effect on the community, sixties-involved immigrants contributed values and behaviors that promoted pluralism; a public and fractious style of debate that prevented any one group from gaining control, a commitment to issues rather than their group which kept alliances fluid and, having traded urban advantages for community values, a dedication to those values.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
