vice to the common man, seen simultaneously as a product and the producer of culture (www.ub.es). Bauman eventually learned to think of culture as the activity of structuring, rather than structure as a matrix of permutations, which he adopted from Claude Levi-Strauss' theory. "He came to think of culture as existing solely in its permutations, in making and unmaking distinctions, tying and untying connections" (www.ub.es).
             In an interview with Zygmunt Bauman published on October 25, 1999, Marian Kempny asked what the most important influences on his intellectual development were. Bauman responded "If some 'moment of revelation' must be located, I guess the encounter with Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks comes closest to the idea of such an event" (www.ub.es). Bauman goes on to explain that his background was mostly in the Marxist theory, with all of its historical determination and solid structures. Gramsci's writings made him realize that this rigid framework "was actually a fluid, liquid flow of cultural transmutations...and such a viewpoint has opened up a completely new approach to understanding and analyzing social reality" (www.ub.es).
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