Claim: Counterculture groups are people who differentiate themselves from the parent culture to which they belong usually in opposition to it.
Evidence: A counterculture -LRB- also written counter-culture -RRB- is a subculture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society , often in opposition to mainstream cultural mores.
Subculture , a concept from the academic fields of sociology and cultural studies , is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs , often maintaining some of its founding principles.