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Williams goes beyond literary
and philosophical analysis to
examine language in all the
forms in which it has been
used to give meaning to lived
experience. There is no such
thing as the masses, Williams
argues, only ways of seeing
people as masses. We can
have good as well as bad
mass culture.
Value can be used to support
and prop up existing
ideological structures and as
an expression of contempt for
the common efforts of ordinary
people.
British society, Williams
asserts in The Long
Revolution, has gone through
one revolution after another. It
has moved through
industrialization,
democratization and cultural
transformation.
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