1958,p6) . It is this that makes up one of the aspects of his two aspects of culture. For Williams culture is "common meanings and directions", as in people's everyday experiences and "new observations and meanings" or as Arnold states, "The best that has been said and thought" (Arnold, 1868) good art, literature and theatre. Williams, who was brought up on a Welsh border town had a traditional working class background. His father was a railway worker and his Grand-Father a farm labourer. What Williams means when he says that "culture is ordinary" is that in that working class environment he witnessed the development and changing of minds, language and skills and the common aspects that brought a community together. It is this that is culture and for this reason that culture is ordinary. This definition of culture is not separate from the idea of the arts, fine literature, music, theatre etc. but is one in the sa
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