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Various observers, among them Theodore Roszak & Charles Reich, have claimed that the contemporary hip underground is a contraculture already beginning to effect major change in Amer Society. This phenomenon has passed through 3 phases: the Beats, the Hippies, & the current, more generalized, "Hip Generation." Explicit or implicit in these analyses are the following hyp's: (1) The hip underground as a whole (all phases) is more expressive (& less instrumental) than the Amer Mc dominant culture; (2) the Hippie-Hip Generation phase (1967-69); & (3) the highly expressive nature of the hip underground has had the "effect" of changing the dominant Mc structure from a more instrumental (less expressive) position (1957-59) to a more expressive (less instrumental) position (1967-69). These hyp's were tested by means of a comparative content analysis of values (the paragraph being used as the unit of analysis) as indicated by the hip underground press & Mc magazines during these time periods. 2 measures of the values were utilized: a Value Category System delineating explicitly Instrumental & Expressive alternatives & a Likert-type Scale ranging from "Instrumental" to "Expressive." Both measures attained conventionally acceptable levels of reliability. The sample further included the underground press as well as other magazines & newspapers. Results of the Instrumental-Expressive Scale, obtained by analysis of variance, indicated a signif main effect for type of literature. More specifically, results of the Value Category System, obtained by chi-square, supported (1) (chi-square=52.30, df=1, p less than 0.005--one-tail), thereby lending support to the contraculture thesis advanced by many authors. Hyp 2 was not confirmed (chi-square=0.351, df=1, p greater than 0.05--one-tail), & hyp (3) was unsubstantiated (chi-square=0.08, df=1, p greater than 0.05--one-tail), hence casting doubt on the claim of a major shift in Amer values as a result of the "influence" of the underground. Modified AA.

From Mélanges d'histoire offerts à m. Charles Bémont. ; Mode of access: Internet.