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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... social, and economic situations and needs. While rejecting the idea that you could describe that relationship in any simple or universal way, he was convinced that it did exist — and that people do struggle in their use of language to ...
... social, and economic situations and needs. While rejecting the idea that you could describe that relationship in any simple or universal way, he was convinced that it did exist — and that people do struggle in their use of language to ...
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... social usefulness that Williams (1976: 21-2) so memorably defined for his book: This is not a neutral review of meanings. It is an exploration of the vocabulary of a crucial area of social and cultural discussion, which has been ...
... social usefulness that Williams (1976: 21-2) so memorably defined for his book: This is not a neutral review of meanings. It is an exploration of the vocabulary of a crucial area of social and cultural discussion, which has been ...
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... social and political issues. The aesthetic is itself often qualified by the modifier “merely” or “purely” to indicate, on the one hand, a despised sphere of social irrelevance, the fussiness of the oftendenigrated aesthete, or, on the ...
... social and political issues. The aesthetic is itself often qualified by the modifier “merely” or “purely” to indicate, on the one hand, a despised sphere of social irrelevance, the fussiness of the oftendenigrated aesthete, or, on the ...
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... social order (Gramsci, 1971). Similar distinctions, with varying evaluations, have figured in women's movements, in lesbian and gay and queer politics, and in struggles around racism, nationalism, and ethnicity. Here minoritizing ...
... social order (Gramsci, 1971). Similar distinctions, with varying evaluations, have figured in women's movements, in lesbian and gay and queer politics, and in struggles around racism, nationalism, and ethnicity. Here minoritizing ...
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... social others, in experiences of difference that can also be transforming. There are signs in the “developed” world today that alternative politics, often despised as bourgeois and itself sometimes anti-political, is becoming a pressing ...
... social others, in experiences of difference that can also be transforming. There are signs in the “developed” world today that alternative politics, often despised as bourgeois and itself sometimes anti-political, is becoming a pressing ...
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