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The Analysis of Culture
Raymond Williams
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Definition of Culture
Ideal Documentary Social
State or process of The body of Description of a
human perfection in intellectual and particular way of life
terms of absolute or imaginative work expressing certain
universal values where human thought meanings and values in
and experience are art, learning, institutions
variously recorded and ordinary behaviour
Analysis of Culture
Discovery and The activity of Clarification of
description of those criticism meanings and values
values in lives and implicit and explicit in a
works. particular way of life.
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Each of these definitions present important
referencesabouttheculturetherefore;
Any theory of culture Any particular
must include all three. definitionbetween those
three is inadequate if
excludes the others
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For ideal definition,
Difficult to identify the process of human perfection with
the discovery of absolute values because these are
ordinarily defined.
Instead of human perfection,theprocess can be called
as human evolution
theprocess of general humangrowth of man
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Documentary analysis of cultureprovidesspecific
evidence about the whole organization
But it cannot be really claimed to know the society
although a great deal of history has been written
Needforselection of particularactivitiesforemphasis
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Culturalhistorymust be morethansum of thoseparticularhistories,
but alsotherelationsbetweenthem
Theory of culturethestudy of relationshipsbetween
elements in a whole way of life.
Analysis of culture the attempt to discover the nature of
the organization which is the
complex of these relationships.
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Social character structure of the people of
thesocietyorsocialclass
accordingtotheirway of
life.
Pattern of culture selection andconfiguration
of interestsandactivities
and a particularvaluation of
them.
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Structure of feeling the particular living
result of all theelements
in the generalorganization
• Is not seemto be learned.
• Is not possessed in thesamewaybythemanyindividuals in
thecommunity
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This element, structure of feeling, can be
learnedbylookingdocumentaryculture
Show the life in directterms
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3 levels of culture
Livedculture– particular time
andplaceonlyfullyaccessibletothoseliving in that time
andplace.
Recordedculture– from art toeverdayfacts, theculture of a
period
Factorconnectingthelivedandrecordedculture– theculture
of selectivetradition
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Thereforetheculture of a period can be
carefullystudiedifideasaboutits
• Culturalwork
• Socialcharacter
• General patterns of activityandvalues
• Structure of feelingarerecovered.
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However it seems not
possibletoknowalltherecordsevenmostspecialists
knowonly a partof them.
Therefore, thereneed a selectiveprocess.
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Everyoneliving in theperiodwouldhave had
somethingnolaterindividualrecover. That is the sense of
life in whichthenovelswerewritten.
Selection
Selectivetradition – fromwhole body of activities,
certainthingsareselectedforvalueandemphasis
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Selectivetraditioncreates;
• A general humanculture
• Historicalrecord of a particularsociety
• A rejection of considerableareas of
whatwasonce a livingculture.
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15. Toreach a realimage of a certainculture
Alltheelementsmentionedshould be seen in
certainrealrelations
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Selectivetradition
Newspapers: Socialcharacter
The Times, Sunday Papers, Dispatch, Chronicle
Dominant social character (Middle-class)
Literature Belief in the value of work
Dickens, Charlotte, Emily Bronte, Kingsley, Disraeli A class society (social status by actual status not by
birth)
Social history Sanctity of marriage
Establishment of a popular Sunday press
The growth of new kind of periodicals Alternative social characters (Aristocratic and
Development of minor theatres working class)
The rise of the music-halls 1940s
Technical changes InEngland
Steam printing
Rotary presses
Ink-blocking on cloth
Political history
Chartist movement Structure of feeling
Factory legislations Looks in novels and popular fictions
Success
Institutional developments Money
Beginings of public museums, libraries, parks etc Wealth
Love
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