Over 25 years ago, Raymond WilliamsKeywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication.New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere.Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists

Showcases 142 signed entries fromart,commodity, andfundamentalism toyouth,utopia,thevirtual, andthe West that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society

Builds on and updates Raymond Williamss classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years

Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing

The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.

Lawrence Grossberg is Professor of Communication Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He co-edited the seminal volumeCultural Studies (l990) and is the author ofWe Gotta Get Out of this Place (1992) andBringing it All Back Home (l997). He also co-authoredMedia-Making: Mass Media in Popular Culture (with Ellen Wartella and D. Charles Whitney, l998).

Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. He is the author ofThe Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (l995) andCulture: A Reformers Science (l998), and is co-editor ofCulture in Australia: Policies, Publics, and Programs (with David Carter, 2001).

Meaghan Morris is Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. She is the author ofThe Pirates Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism (1988),Translation and Subjectivity (l997), andToo Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture (l998), and is co-editor (with John Frow) ofAustralian Cultural Studies: A Reader (l993).

Acknowledgements Abbreviations.

Introduction A.

Aesthetics.

Alternative.

Art.

Audience B.

Behaviour.

Biology.

Body.

Bureaucracy C.

Canon.

Capitalism.

Celebrity.

Citizenship.

City.

Civilization.

Class.

Colonialism.

Commodity.

Communication.

Community.

Conservatism.

Consumption.

Copy.

Country.

Culture D.

Deconstruction.

Democracy.

Desire.

Development.

Diaspora Difference.

Disability.

Discipline.

Discourse E.

Economy.

Education.

Elite.

Emotion.

Empirical.

Environment/ecology.

Equality.

Ethnicity.

Everyday.

Evolution.

Experience F.

Family.

Fashion.

Feminism.

Fetish.

Freedom.

Fundamentalism G.

Gay and Lesbian.

Gender.

Generation.

Gene/genetic.

Globalization.

Government H.

Heritage.

History.

Holocaust.

Home.

Human.

Human Rights I.

Ideology.

Identity.

Image.

Indigenous.

Individual.

Industry.

Information.

Intellectual J.

Justice K.

Knowledge.

L.

Liberalism M.

Management.

Marginal.

Market.

Mass.

Materialism.

Media.

Memory.

Mobility.

Modern.

Movements.

Multiculturalism N.

Narrative.

Nation.

Nature.

Network.

Normal O.

Objectivity.

Orientalism.

Other P.

Participation.

Person.

Place.

Policy.

Political correctness.

Popular.

Pornography.

Postcolonialism.

Postmodernism.

Poverty.

Power.

Pragmatism.

Private.

Public Q.

Queer R.

Race.

Radical.

Reason.

Reform/revolution.

Relativism.

Representation.

Resistance.

Risk S.

Science.

Self.

Sexuality.

Sign.

Socialism.

Society.

Sovereignty.

Space.

Spectacle.

State T.

Taste.

Technology.

Text.

Theory.

Therapy.

Time.

Tolerance.

Tourism U.

Unconscious.

Utopia V.

Value.

Virtual W.

Welfare.

West, the.

Work.

Writing Y.

Youth.

Notes on editors and contributors.

References