Some scholars have attributed the counterculture to Theodore Roszak, author of The Making of a Counter Culture.His conception of the counterculture is discussed in Whiteley, 2012 & 2014 and Bennett, 2012. It became prominent in the news media amid the social revolution that swept the Americas, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand during the 1960s."counterculture", Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 2008, MWCCul.Roszak, Theodore, The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition, 1968/1969, Doubleday, New York, .
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