Culture, Society And Sensory Structure

Raymond Williams is famous cultural theorist of modern Britain, his major influence in the New Left Movement and Cultural Studies, Among his life, he wrote many works of criticism."Culture and Society" and "The Long Revolution" is the representative of his early ideas, but also as the foundation of all his thoughts. Both books have a history of writing characteristics, it’s main contents are specific text reading Criticisms, preface or introduction and conclusion of the book is often the basis for his theory or theories of cultural sublimation,but also a slightly different way of writing. In the book, In addition, he made and continue to improve its cultural theory, the more is the use of the theory to practice specific criticism. Thus, his cultural theory more reflected as a historical context, cultural analysis and political intervention combination of methodology.In theory that "culture","structure of feeling" and other related concepts are important, how will this "culture" and "structure of feeling" concept and theory to implement the entire process of social production methods or the implementation of specific text analysis among the more practical than theoretical interpretation of sense.This article will attempt peruse two books by the early Williams’"Culture and Society" and "The Long Revolution", which found that the key concepts of cultural theory, theoretical approach and the specific use of cultural analysis approach, in order to achieve grasp the overall cultural theory of Williams.This paper is divided into three parts, the first part is an introduction, make a brief introduction to the life of Williams,the main reason for this article introduces the topic, research Status of this subject and proposed to solve the problem.The second part is the main part of the paper,it is divided into following three sections:The first chapter is start with the dialogue about Williams and British elitism cultural and Postwar Marxism cultural,then to demonstrate two books on theoretical and methodological approaches features, to see how Williams described his theory of culture, identify characteristics of his theory.The second chapter analyzes the key concepts involved in Williams’culture, through correct the "foundation and superstructure", dialectical explain the concept about Culture, mass media, community and structure of feeling,"Structure of feeling" in the original concept which plays an irreplaceable role. And these concepts are essential for understanding the cultural theory of Williams, we rely on them to open the door to Williams’ theory of ideas.The third chapter is the most important part of this article.In this chapter, all major works start from the "structure of feeling" concept which throughout Williams books, carried out Williams’ early work on text reading, find some case and analyze it, summed up Williams the theoretical method of analyzing the nineteenth century industrial novels, modern drama and cultural systems, such as the inherent cultural analysis, at the same time in which to apply this theory to the methods and concepts for testing.Finally, the epilogue, based on the above discussion and study of the foregoing,associated Williams’ cultural theory with the actual situation in China,point out its cultural theory enlightenment meaning and value for us.