Culture

Currently in the heart of downtown Boston sociology has a home. A group of people have taken up residence in a park downtown and made a tent city. Occupy Boston is the name of the event that has had people living in the streets since September 30th. They are protesting the state of the economy in Boston and the joblessness and financial strain that stems from it.
This new society that has developed basically on a street corner is not only an example of sub-American culture, but counterculture as well.
The people living in the Occupy Boston tent city are mostly homeless or jobless. They are a culture of people that differ from mainstream Americans. They live on the streets, beg for money, and sleep in shelters, some homeless people even get arrested during the winter so they have a place to sleep and three square meals a day. This is obviously very different from mainstream culture where being arrested has no positive benefits. Americans value hygiene and nice clothes, homeless people do not usually abide by these rules, whether it be by choice or not. In that way homeless culture is sub culture of american culture.
Occupy Boston is a protest. People are trying to change what they do not like about the government and society. They are going against the culture that we know by sleeping outside and by willing to be arrested, which most people aren't. It is the exact definition of counter culture it conspicuously and deliberately opposes certain aspects of  the larger culture, the part of society that listens to government and does not challenge what it says. The part of society that says people should live in houses. Occupy Boston is the perfect example of sub and counter culture.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/10/12/at_occupy_boston_students_homeless_veterans_find_a_common_ground/