Cultural production and means of communication

pp. 142-180

in: Paul Jones, Raymond Williams's sociology of culture, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Abstract

This chapter contains more overtly exegetical material than the others. The first sections present the typologies based in Williams's production paradigm, employing The Sociology of Culture as the major point of reference. With the exception of the special place granted to means of communication, these follow fairly directly from the characterization of the paradigm and the mediating role of "formations' developed in Chapters 2 and 3.