I was kind of lost with a lot of this, but here goes nothing...
Raymond Williams wrote "Culture is Ordinary" to show his point of view of what culture means and how it changes. He writes it in a way that isn't long, drawn out and boring but instead, he makes it to the point and fairly easy to read. In the article he explains that, with growing up in the country, he got to see culture in it's stages of change because he could stand on the mountain, look one way and see a more peaceful, small area and then look the other way and see a more developed area with factories and polution. He also talks about growing up in a family of a few generations and seeing how each one changed.He then gets into how every human society is very different from one another in art, religion and in its purposes and meanings. These societies change with every person who is born into them. He says we use the word "culture" to mean either "a whole way of life" or "the special process of discovery and creative effort," but he doesn't believe in just one of these defintitions as the definition of culture, but instead he believes culture means both of these defintions intertwining and correlating to eachother to equal the true meaning of culture.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
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