Introduction: Raymond Williams on culture and society -- Culture is ordinary -- Mass, masses and mass communication -- Structure of feeling and selective tradition -- Advertising : the magic system -- Communication systems -- The idea of a common culture -- Social Darwinism -- Base and superstructure in Marxist cultural theory -- The technology and the society -- Drama in a dramatized society -- Communications as cultural science -- Developments in the sociology of culture -- Realism and non-naturalism -- A lecture on realism -- Means of communication as means of production -- 'Industrial' and 'post-industrial' society -- The culture of nations -- Resources for a journey of hope -- State culture and beyond -- The future of cultural studies.