ABSTRACT

I expressed the differences and similarties of culture discussed in the two texts "Culture is Ordinary" by Raymond Williams and "In the Shadow of the Image" by Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen. I argued that they both resemble some of the same ideas on culture as well as differences. Culture is made up of changes, and society makes up our changes is a similarity they expressed. Everyday, everything we do makes up our culture. They both backed up their ideas by explaining descriptions of events in everyday life. As well as similarties there there were also difference between the texts. Stuart and Elizabeth expressed in "The Shadow of the Image" that culture is being made up of mass-medie and commercial images, that they beleive culture is going to be taken over by a consumer society. Raymond Williams in "Culture is Ordinary" just expressed the idea of culture being ordinary and that society influences and makes up different cultures. The signifigance of my argument is to show that culture can be many different things, many things can make up what a culture is. People have different opinons on culture because our society makes up the definition of culture.