Raymond Williams - Keywords
Theoretical enclycopedia about terms and their changing uses throughout history.
CULTURE:
- Before C18th it is the tending natural growth
- C18th it is cultivated or civilised
- Human development
- Cultures in the plural, there is not just one shared culture
- Modern usage is that culture means music, art, literature, film ect.
Idea of Britishness is bringing civilisation, bringing culture to the uncultured.
Increase of inhomagisation of the world
It changes from people who live on the other side of the world into people knowing about everyone like a village and everyone would be interconnected.
Three problems of gobalisation:
- Sovereignty
- Accountability
- Identity
Cultural Imperiliasm
If the ‘global village’ is run with a certain set of values then it would not be so much an integrated community as an assimilated one.
Qualities of ‘authentic culture’
- Real
- European
- Multi-Dimensional
- Active consumption
- Individual creation
- Imagination
- Negation
- Autonomous
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