Using a text, newspaper article or T.V. programme that relates to our key terms: democracy, class, industry, art and culture. Do these terms one or all have significance at the beginning of this century?
Firstly it seems important to define these terms which Raymond Williams does, in his book 'Culture and Society.' In the first half of the 18th century, through to the beginning of the 19th, these terms; democracy, industry, art, class and culture have become of growing importance and came for the first time into the common English language. It can be seen that not only their usage changes but also their meaning; these changes bear witness to a change in our common life.
These changes can be seen firstly in the word industry and the time in which this word changed; the Industrial Revolution. Before this period industry was the name for a particular human attribute; a skill, assiduity, perseverance, diligence. …
