New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society - Paperback

New Keywords carries the Williams project into the present, 142 signed entries running from art and commodity through to youth and utopia.

Who reaches for it

Communication and sociology students, mostly. One reader describes using it across a whole degree and still finding it worth opening once the focus narrowed to a specialism.

The honest criticism

Not everyone is sold. A reviewer found the entries too broad for a specialist and too dense for a browser, and argued that a search engine now covers the same ground for nothing.

From the publisher

Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: 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 - from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West - that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society

• Builds on and updates Raymond Williams's 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.