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Raymond Williams’s Sociology of Culture

A Critical Reconstruction

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  • © 2004

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  1. Paul Jones

    1. School of Sociology, University of New South Wales, Australia

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Settling Accounts with ‘Culture’

    • Paul Jones
    Pages 1-36

  3. Cultural Materialism versus ‘Received Marxist Theory’

    • Paul Jones
    Pages 37-60

  4. From Criticism to Critique

    • Paul Jones
    Pages 61-91

  5. Social Formalism

    • Paul Jones
    Pages 92-126

  6. Towards a Sociology of Culture

    • Paul Jones
    Pages 127-141

  7. Cultural Production and Means of Communication

    • Paul Jones
    Pages 142-180

  8. The Long Revolution(s) of Modernity

    • Paul Jones
    Pages 181-194

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 195-247
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About this book

This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his approach to 'the media'.

Reviews

'A critical, meticulous and coherent account of Raymond Williams's principal ideas and intellectual development, Paul Jones provides a scholarly overview of Williams's immanent emancipatory theory. In charting the growth of Williams's sociology of culture, this volume explores the complex and conflictual relations between sociology, cultural studies and literary theory. The Raymond Williams book for which we have all been waiting.' - Bryan Turner, University of Cambridge, UK

'One of the most important examinations of Williams's work to date. Skilful summary exposition and explanation of Williams's positions(s) are valuably supplemented by a depth of theoretical knowledge that seeks throughout to place Williams's work in a broader context. Exploring as it does interactions and borrowings between sociology, semiology, literary history, Marxist theories, Frankfurt School critical theory and (post)structuralism(s), the book would make a fine contribution to graduate-level courses that address the emergence and complexities of critical-cultural analysis throughout the past 50 years or more.' - James Hamilton, University of Georgia, USA, in Media, Culture and Society

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Sociology, University of New South Wales, Australia

    Paul Jones

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PAUL JONES is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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