Practice question · Select all that apply
Which are true of Williams' concept of structures of feeling?
Hints
- Three describe a social phenomenon; one makes it a matter of personal psychology.
- The word "structures" is doing work, it is social, not individual.
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- A. It describes meanings actively being lived, not a finished system
- B. It names social experience still in solution, before it is formalised
- D. It is often registered in literature before it is stated as doctrine
Why
The concept exists precisely to name something social that is not yet doctrine. A generation can feel a change in what relationships or work mean well before anyone formulates it, and novels frequently register that shift first, which is Williams' argument for reading literature as evidence rather than illustration.
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