It started if to delineate, thus, the contours of a social movement of character strong libertarian, with an enormous one I appeal next to youth of urban average layers and with an one practical and iderio that placed in xeque, frontalmente, some values central offices of the culture occidental person, especially certain essential aspects of the rationality propagated and privileged for this same culture. Despite differing very from the traditional organized movements of social plea? this in such a way for the flags that raised, how much for the way directed that them? the cultivation obtained to affirm itself, to the eyes of the System and the oppositions (despite generating untiring quarrels), as a movement deeply catalytic and questionador, capable to inaugurate for significant sectors of the population of the United States and the Europe, initially, and of some countries of it are of the developed world, later, a style, a life way and a culture undrerground, delinquent that, at least gave what to think. (PEAR TREE, 1992, p.8-9). In accordance with PEAR TREE (1992), the term ' ' contracultura' ' it was invented by the North American press, in years 60, to assign the new cultural manifestations that had not only blossomed in the United States, as well as in the Europe and, with lesser intensity, in Latin America. Cultivation is the culture delinquent, independent of the official recognition. In the truth, it is a sufficiently coherent term, therefore the basic characteristics of the movement it is the fact of if opposing, in different ways to the effective culture. It still classifies the cultivation in two different ways: 20 as a historical phenomenon, whose origin can be given in the decade of 60, giving the direction of that it was only established; as a position in face of the conventional culture, of critical radical, giving the direction that is and always will be.