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- Title
Raymond Williams and sociology.
- Authors
McGuigan, Jim; Moran, Marie
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to recover Williams as a major theoretical inspiration for the social sciences, specifically, as the inaugurator of what might be regarded as a research paradigm, cultural materialism. In the first section, Williams's encounter with the discipline of sociology is traced and distinguished as a critical alternative to the presently ascendant - at least in the USA - neo-Durkeimian school of 'cultural sociology'. In the second section, his cultural-materialist programme is proposed as a powerful analytical framework for the study of culture and society today. In the final section, a key concept of Williams's cultural materialism, mobile privatization, is selected illustratively and proposed as a powerful analytical tool for studying the production and technological mediation of typical modes of communicative sociality in the early twenty-first century.
- Subjects
WILLIAMS, Raymond, 1921-1988; CULTURAL materialism; SOCIAL theory; HISTORY of sociology; PRIVATIZATION; TECHNOLOGICAL determinism theory (Communication); TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Sociological Review, 2014, Vol 62, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-954X.12138