RS170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Raymond Williams
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Structure of feeling: the core identity of a culture. The structure of feeling cannot be deduced from only the ideal culture. One must look at patterns of the documentary culture. When looking at a large culture (e. g. canada), it is difficult to come up with one structure of. Cultural studies is about what documentary culture can express as a meaning of a particular way of life. Popular culture is a site of negotiation of meaning. Unlike the frankfurt school which argues that popular culture is created by those in power in order to instill their values into the masses hall argues that the masses do not passively accept popular culture. The producer encodes the meaning of pop culture (i. e. they have a reason for creating it). The consumer decodes the meaning in a way that may be different than intended.
