The Politics of Culture John Storey Signification and Power Raymond Williams Cultural Studies Meaning and Social Practice This article provides an overview over the evolution of thinking about "culture" in the work of Raymond Williams. With the introduction of Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony culture came to be understood as consisting of not only shared, but contested meanings as well. On the basis of this redefinition by Williams, cultural studies was able to delineate culture as the production, circulation, and consumption of meanings that become embodied and embedded in social practice. Philipps-Universität Marburg Marburg Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg 2017 2017-01-27 2018-01-31 Text article urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0003-2017-179-63302 eng 2714728-9 7 1 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/article/download/6330/6332 10.17192/meta.2017.7.6330 https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0003/2017/179/6330