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Raymond Williams on culture & society : essential writings
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- Summary
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The work of Raymond Williams remains hugely influential, not just in the humanities but across the social sciences too. This collection introduces a new generation of students to a major figure in ...
The work of Raymond Williams remains hugely influential, not just in the humanities but across the social sciences too. This collection introduces a new generation of students to a major figure in sociology, media studies and cultural studies.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Jim McGuigan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxvi, 342 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781849207713, 1849207712, 1849207704, 1473914760, 9781473914766
- OCLC
- ocn915495973
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction: Raymond Williams on culture and society -- Culture is ordinary -- Mass, masses and mass communication -- Structure of feeling and selective tradition -- Advertising : the magic system -- Communication systems -- The idea of a common culture -- Social Darwinism -- Base and superstructure in Marxist cultural theory -- The technology and the society -- Drama in a dramatized society -- Communications as cultural science -- Developments in the sociology of culture -- Realism and non-naturalism -- A lecture on realism -- Means of communication as means of production -- 'Industrial' and 'post-industrial' society -- The culture of nations -- Resources for a journey of hope -- State culture and beyond -- The future of cultural studies