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CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Culture is according to Williams’ a reaction to
changes “in the condition of our common life”
(314)
there are many different kinds of culture:
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/zoebrigley/entry/raymond_williams_conclusion/
MASS AND MASSES
Multiple transmission
“The traditional popular culture of England was, if
not annihilated, at least fragmented and
weakened by the dislocations of the Industrial
Revolution.” (339)
“if the major part of our culture, in the sense of
intellectual and imaginative work, is to be called,
as the Marxists call it, ‘bourgeois culture, it is
natural to look for an alternative culture, and to
call it proletarian… the body of intellectual and
imaginative work… is always…something more
than the product of a single class.” (339)