New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and SocietyTony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere.
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... dominance of a “purist” aesthetics that equated the highest value with a compelling formal, virtuosic achievement within a traditional medium such as painting or sculpture (Fried, 1998). The other development is the rise of the media ...
... dominance of a “purist” aesthetics that equated the highest value with a compelling formal, virtuosic achievement within a traditional medium such as painting or sculpture (Fried, 1998). The other development is the rise of the media ...
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... dominant ways or explicitly challenge them. Williams is emphatic that “even some alternative senses of the world can be accommodated and tolerated within a particular effective and dominant culture” (1980: 32). Alternatives may be ...
... dominant ways or explicitly challenge them. Williams is emphatic that “even some alternative senses of the world can be accommodated and tolerated within a particular effective and dominant culture” (1980: 32). Alternatives may be ...
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... dominant groups (particularly Western, white, heterosexual, middle-class men), in contrast, tend to be represented through and identified with intellectual achievement. Their physical traits and bodily functioning are often ignored or ...
... dominant groups (particularly Western, white, heterosexual, middle-class men), in contrast, tend to be represented through and identified with intellectual achievement. Their physical traits and bodily functioning are often ignored or ...
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... dominance, displacing feudal and peasant economies and outlasting its apparent modern competitor (communism, sometimes known as state capitalism). Capitalism has been universalized as the “one best way," or at least as the system to ...
... dominance, displacing feudal and peasant economies and outlasting its apparent modern competitor (communism, sometimes known as state capitalism). Capitalism has been universalized as the “one best way," or at least as the system to ...
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... dominance achieved by the capitalist system seems to have rendered the term less controversial. The critical meanings of the term are strongly associated with Marx's investigations into the workings of the capitalist mode of production ...
... dominance achieved by the capitalist system seems to have rendered the term less controversial. The critical meanings of the term are strongly associated with Marx's investigations into the workings of the capitalist mode of production ...
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activity aesthetic argued associated become behavior Bhikhu Parekh body capitalism capitalist citizenship civilization claim colonial communication concept contemporary context critical cultural studies debates democracy democratic discipline discourse distinction dominant economic elite emerged ethnic European everyday example experience feminism feminist forms gender global groups homosexuality human rights idea identity ideology increasingly individual industry intellectual Keywords knowledge labor labor power language lesbian liberal Marxist mass meaning Michael Bérubé Michel Foucault mobility modern moral movements multiculturalism nation nature neo-liberal norms object one’s organized person philosophical political popular pornography postcolonial postmodern practices production psychoanalysis queer race racial radical Raymond Williams refer relations relationship representation revolution sense sexual Sigmund Freud social society space specific technologies term theory Tony Bennett tradition unconscious University usage W. J. T. Mitchell welfare Western Williams women word