An
anti-establishment view or belief is one which stands in opposition to the conventional social, political, and economic principles of a society. The term was first used in the modern sense in 1958, by the
British magazine
New Statesman to refer to its political and social agenda. The term can be distinguished from
counterculture, a word normally used to describe artistic rather than political movements that run against the prevailing taste and values of the time. Although the term has retained its original meaning in
British English and continues to be applied to various individuals and groups, in
American English the term is used more specifically to describe certain social and political movements that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s.