Culture and Society 1780-1950

# Sinopse

In Culture and Society Raymond Williams has traced the idea of culture in English thought between 1780 and 1950. Culture, being defined as a “general social process,” stands in relation to society as a whole. The growth of culture in this sense is closely bound up with the growth of democracy and with the development of the press and of education. Culture and Society is proving to be one of the most significant and discussed—a most original in intent—of recent years. D. G. Daiches, reviewing it, has written: “I find this book impressive and also infinitely suggestive and also infinitely suggestive. It will almost certainly occupy an important place in discussion of contemporary culture for some time to come.”