Those of us on the left should study is words with care: culture helps shape society, so we need to learn how to shape culture. In order to understand what Raymond Williams might mean by the claim "culture is ordinary", it will be necessary to provide a genealogy of the concept of culture. He believes that culture is not limited to a certain group of people but rather is structured and available to and by all, that is why it is 'ordinary'. Williams refuses to acknowledge these two sense of culture (actually he denies a lot in this reading).

There is, first, the ‘ideal’, in which culture is a state or process of human perfection, in terms of certain absolute or universal values. I came to cultural materialism by another route. Raymond Williams developed the approach which he named 'cultural materialism' in a series of influential books - Culture and Society (1958), the Long Revolution (1961), Marxism and Literature (1977).

The Analysis of Culture – Raymond Williams.

Summary Williams opens his piece with a short account of revisiting his childhood home in Wales, accompanied by a brief recollection of his personal history—a rhetorical strategy he employs with frequency in the piece, and not unlike what we saw in Miller’s work. Raymond Williams CULTURE IS ORDINARY [1958] (Source: Williams, Raymond (1989aj Resources of Hope: Cu/ture, Democracy, Socialism, London: Verso. There are three general categories in the definition of culture.

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(2014). Culture is ordinary: Raymond Williams and cultural materialism Phil Edwards, July 1999.

Raymond Williams is an important thinker if we seek a socialist culture and we defend the idea that culture is ordinary by which he meant culture was for all of us not simply an elite.

1-18). Culture is ordinary (1958). 3-14) Editor's introduction Raymond Williams (1921—1988) was a decisive influence on the formation of cultural studies.

McGuigan, J. Abstract: Raymond Williams’ “Culture is Ordinary” I.

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