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Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Raymond Williams's statement that culture is ordinary primarily means that culture:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Williams argues that culture is present in ordinary social life rather than being restricted to elite art.
• It includes shared meanings, institutions, customs and creative practices.
• Option B is correct because it connects culture with both everyday experience and artistic production.
• Williams challenges the rigid division between refined culture and common life.
• It includes shared meanings, institutions, customs and creative practices.
• Option B is correct because it connects culture with both everyday experience and artistic production.
• Williams challenges the rigid division between refined culture and common life.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Who wrote the influential essay Culture Is Ordinary?
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Explanation:
• Raymond Williams wrote Culture Is Ordinary in 1958.
• The essay presents culture as a whole way of life involving shared meanings and creative activity.
• Richard Hoggart wrote The Uses of Literacy, while E.P. Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class.
• The essay became an important foundation for British Cultural Studies.
• The essay presents culture as a whole way of life involving shared meanings and creative activity.
• Richard Hoggart wrote The Uses of Literacy, while E.P. Thompson wrote The Making of the English Working Class.
• The essay became an important foundation for British Cultural Studies.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which work by Raymond Williams systematically examines the changing meanings of culturally significant words?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Keywords studies the historical development of important social and cultural terms.
• Williams examines words such as culture, class, industry and democracy.
• The book demonstrates that vocabulary records social conflict and historical change.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• Williams examines words such as culture, class, industry and democracy.
• The book demonstrates that vocabulary records social conflict and historical change.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
The concept structure of feeling refers to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Structure of feeling describes meanings and values that are actively lived within a historical moment.
• Such experiences may not yet have become fully formalized as institutions or explicit ideologies.
• Option C is correct because the concept links social history with lived and emerging experience.
• It is neither universal nor limited to literary form.
• Such experiences may not yet have become fully formalized as institutions or explicit ideologies.
• Option C is correct because the concept links social history with lived and emerging experience.
• It is neither universal nor limited to literary form.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
In Williams's cultural analysis, lived culture refers most directly to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Lived culture consists of meanings, relationships and practices experienced by people within a specific society.
• Only part of this culture may survive in documents or artistic records.
• Option A is correct because it emphasizes immediate historical experience.
• Williams distinguishes lived culture from the selective record transmitted to later generations.
• Only part of this culture may survive in documents or artistic records.
• Option A is correct because it emphasizes immediate historical experience.
• Williams distinguishes lived culture from the selective record transmitted to later generations.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Which work by Raymond Williams is especially associated with the concepts dominant, residual and emergent?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Williams develops the categories dominant, residual and emergent in Marxism and Literature.
• These categories explain the coexistence of different cultural forces within a historical formation.
• The dominant organizes prevailing meanings, while residual and emergent elements may interact with or challenge it.
• Option C is therefore correct.
• These categories explain the coexistence of different cultural forces within a historical formation.
• The dominant organizes prevailing meanings, while residual and emergent elements may interact with or challenge it.
• Option C is therefore correct.
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Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
A residual cultural form is one that:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Residual culture originates in an earlier social formation but continues to operate in the present.
• It may support, coexist with or oppose the dominant culture.
• Option B is correct because residual does not simply mean dead or forgotten.
• Religious traditions, inherited customs or older values may function as residual elements.
• It may support, coexist with or oppose the dominant culture.
• Option B is correct because residual does not simply mean dead or forgotten.
• Religious traditions, inherited customs or older values may function as residual elements.
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Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Emergent culture consists of:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Emergent culture includes new practices, meanings, values and social relationships.
• These elements may not yet be fully institutionalized or recognized.
• They can develop as alternatives or forms of opposition to dominant culture.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• These elements may not yet be fully institutionalized or recognized.
• They can develop as alternatives or forms of opposition to dominant culture.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which statement best describes dominant culture in Williams's framework?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Dominant culture refers to meanings and values that possess effective social authority.
• It is sustained through institutions, practices and material relationships.
• Option C is correct because dominance involves active cultural organization rather than simple numerical popularity.
• Williams also emphasizes that dominant culture must continually respond to residual and emergent forces.
• It is sustained through institutions, practices and material relationships.
• Option C is correct because dominance involves active cultural organization rather than simple numerical popularity.
• Williams also emphasizes that dominant culture must continually respond to residual and emergent forces.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Which description best defines Raymond Williams's cultural materialism?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Cultural materialism examines cultural and literary production as part of material social processes.
• It studies institutions, technologies, class relations and historical conditions.
• Option A is correct because Williams rejects the separation of culture from material life.
• Cultural materialism does not simply reduce texts to economics but studies their complex social production.
• It studies institutions, technologies, class relations and historical conditions.
• Option A is correct because Williams rejects the separation of culture from material life.
• Cultural materialism does not simply reduce texts to economics but studies their complex social production.
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Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Statement I: Williams treats culture as an active social process.
Statement II: He regards cultural meanings as permanently fixed and unaffected by history.
Statement II: He regards cultural meanings as permanently fixed and unaffected by history.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because Williams understands culture as continuously produced through practices and relationships.
• Statement II is incorrect because cultural meanings change through historical conflict and social transformation.
• His work on keywords demonstrates the historical variability of language.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because cultural meanings change through historical conflict and social transformation.
• His work on keywords demonstrates the historical variability of language.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
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Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Statement I: Structure of feeling refers to experience that may not yet be fully formalized.
Statement II: Structure of feeling is identical with an officially declared ideology.
Statement II: Structure of feeling is identical with an officially declared ideology.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because a structure of feeling involves lived meanings that are still developing.
• Statement II is incorrect because an official ideology is already explicitly formulated and institutionalized.
• Structure of feeling often identifies experiences that have not yet received complete conceptual expression.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because an official ideology is already explicitly formulated and institutionalized.
• Structure of feeling often identifies experiences that have not yet received complete conceptual expression.
• Hence, option B is correct.
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Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Assertion: Williams rejects the idea that literature can be completely separated from society.
Reason: Literary production takes place through historically specific institutions, technologies and social relations.
Reason: Literary production takes place through historically specific institutions, technologies and social relations.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because Williams places literature within material and historical processes.
• The Reason is also correct because publishing, education, patronage and communication technologies shape literary production.
• These conditions explain why literature cannot be treated as socially autonomous.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is also correct because publishing, education, patronage and communication technologies shape literary production.
• These conditions explain why literature cannot be treated as socially autonomous.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
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Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Assertion: An emergent culture is always fully incorporated into the dominant culture as soon as it appears.
Reason: Emergent practices may remain alternative or oppositional for a considerable period.
Reason: Emergent practices may remain alternative or oppositional for a considerable period.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is incorrect because emergent cultural forms are not automatically absorbed immediately.
• The Reason is correct because new practices may remain alternative or oppositional.
• The dominant culture may attempt to incorporate selected emergent elements while excluding others.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• The Reason is correct because new practices may remain alternative or oppositional.
• The dominant culture may attempt to incorporate selected emergent elements while excluding others.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
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Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Consider the following statements about Williams's idea of culture:
1. Culture includes ordinary ways of life.
2. Culture includes artistic and intellectual production.
3. Culture is independent of institutions.
4. Culture develops historically.
Which statements are correct?
1. Culture includes ordinary ways of life.
2. Culture includes artistic and intellectual production.
3. Culture is independent of institutions.
4. Culture develops historically.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because Williams emphasizes ordinary practices and shared meanings.
• Statement 2 is correct because art and intellectual work remain important parts of culture.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because institutions actively organize cultural production and circulation.
• Statement 4 is correct because culture changes through historical processes.
• Thus, option C is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because art and intellectual work remain important parts of culture.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because institutions actively organize cultural production and circulation.
• Statement 4 is correct because culture changes through historical processes.
• Thus, option C is correct.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Consider the following statements about cultural materialism:
1. It examines material conditions of cultural production.
2. It studies cultural institutions.
3. It treats history as irrelevant to textual meaning.
4. It connects literature with social processes.
Which statements are correct?
1. It examines material conditions of cultural production.
2. It studies cultural institutions.
3. It treats history as irrelevant to textual meaning.
4. It connects literature with social processes.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because cultural materialism studies production, labour and material conditions.
• Statement 2 is correct because institutions such as publishing and education shape culture.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because historical analysis is essential to cultural materialism.
• Statement 4 is correct because literature is examined within broader social processes.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because institutions such as publishing and education shape culture.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because historical analysis is essential to cultural materialism.
• Statement 4 is correct because literature is examined within broader social processes.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
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Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Dominant
2. Residual
3. Emergent
4. Structure of feeling
List II
I. New meanings and practices in formation
II. Prevailing organized cultural values
III. Active elements originating in an earlier period
IV. Lived meanings not yet fully formalized
List I
1. Dominant
2. Residual
3. Emergent
4. Structure of feeling
List II
I. New meanings and practices in formation
II. Prevailing organized cultural values
III. Active elements originating in an earlier period
IV. Lived meanings not yet fully formalized
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Dominant culture matches prevailing organized cultural values.
• Residual culture matches active elements inherited from an earlier period.
• Emergent culture matches new meanings and practices that are developing.
• Structure of feeling matches lived meanings that are not yet fully formalized.
• Hence, option A gives the correct matching.
• Residual culture matches active elements inherited from an earlier period.
• Emergent culture matches new meanings and practices that are developing.
• Structure of feeling matches lived meanings that are not yet fully formalized.
• Hence, option A gives the correct matching.
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Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Keywords
2. The Long Revolution
3. Marxism and Literature
4. Culture and Society
List II
I. Changing meanings of significant social terms
II. Cultural change, communication and democracy
III. Cultural theory and historical materialism
IV. Development of the idea of culture in English thought
List I
1. Keywords
2. The Long Revolution
3. Marxism and Literature
4. Culture and Society
List II
I. Changing meanings of significant social terms
II. Cultural change, communication and democracy
III. Cultural theory and historical materialism
IV. Development of the idea of culture in English thought
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Keywords examines the historical changes in important social vocabulary.
• The Long Revolution explores cultural transformation, communication and democracy.
• Marxism and Literature develops Williams's cultural theory in relation to historical materialism.
• Culture and Society traces the development of the idea of culture in English intellectual history.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
• The Long Revolution explores cultural transformation, communication and democracy.
• Marxism and Literature develops Williams's cultural theory in relation to historical materialism.
• Culture and Society traces the development of the idea of culture in English intellectual history.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
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Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Which is the correct chronological order of the following works by Raymond Williams?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Culture and Society was published in 1958.
• The Long Revolution followed in 1961.
• Keywords was first published in 1976.
• Marxism and Literature appeared in 1977.
• Thus, option A provides the correct chronological sequence.
• The Long Revolution followed in 1961.
• Keywords was first published in 1976.
• Marxism and Literature appeared in 1977.
• Thus, option A provides the correct chronological sequence.
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Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Which of the following is NOT consistent with Williams's method of historical analysis?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Williams examines cultural meanings as historically produced and socially contested.
• His analysis connects language, literature, institutions and material conditions.
• Option D is inconsistent because it presents values as timeless and autonomous.
• Historical specificity is fundamental to Williams's method.
• His analysis connects language, literature, institutions and material conditions.
• Option D is inconsistent because it presents values as timeless and autonomous.
• Historical specificity is fundamental to Williams's method.
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Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
A scholar investigates how publishing houses, universities and broadcasting organizations influence which literary works circulate widely. This approach most closely reflects:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Williams examines how institutions shape the production, selection and circulation of culture.
• Publishing, universities and broadcasting possess material power over literary visibility.
• Option A is correct because the research connects cultural texts with institutional processes.
• The approach goes beyond biography and purely linguistic analysis.
• Publishing, universities and broadcasting possess material power over literary visibility.
• Option A is correct because the research connects cultural texts with institutional processes.
• The approach goes beyond biography and purely linguistic analysis.
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Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A new digital storytelling practice develops outside established publishing institutions and expresses previously marginalized experiences. In Williams's framework, it would initially be classified as:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The practice is new and expresses developing meanings and social relationships.
• It exists outside established institutions and may challenge dominant cultural forms.
• These features make it an example of emergent culture.
• It could later be incorporated into the dominant culture, but it is initially emergent.
• It exists outside established institutions and may challenge dominant cultural forms.
• These features make it an example of emergent culture.
• It could later be incorporated into the dominant culture, but it is initially emergent.
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Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A traditional religious festival originating centuries ago continues to influence contemporary community life. It is best classified as:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The festival originated in an earlier historical formation.
• It remains active and meaningful in contemporary social life.
• Williams uses residual to describe such inherited but continuing cultural elements.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• It remains active and meaningful in contemporary social life.
• Williams uses residual to describe such inherited but continuing cultural elements.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
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Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between Raymond Williams and traditional idealist views of culture is most accurate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Williams analyses culture as part of material social life and historical production.
• Traditional idealist approaches may treat culture as an autonomous realm of ideas or superior values.
• Option B accurately identifies the central difference.
• Williams does not restrict culture to the canon or explain it through biological inheritance.
• Traditional idealist approaches may treat culture as an autonomous realm of ideas or superior values.
• Option B accurately identifies the central difference.
• Williams does not restrict culture to the canon or explain it through biological inheritance.
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Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which conclusion best represents the relationship between literature and society in Williams's cultural materialism?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Williams treats literature as a form of material cultural production.
• Literary texts emerge through institutions, technologies and historical relationships.
• Literature can also participate in shaping values, identities and social understandings.
• Option C avoids both simple reflection theory and claims of complete autonomy.
• Literary texts emerge through institutions, technologies and historical relationships.
• Literature can also participate in shaping values, identities and social understandings.
• Option C avoids both simple reflection theory and claims of complete autonomy.
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Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: B. Exists in everyday meanings, practices and creative forms సమాధానం: B.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: A. Raymond Williams సమాధానం: A.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: D. Keywords సమాధానం: D.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: C. The lived and developing social experience of a particular historical period సమాధానం: C.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Culture experienced and practised by people in a particular time and place సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: C. Marxism and Literature సమాధానం: C.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: B. Originated in an earlier period but remains active in the present సమాధానం: B.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. New meanings, values and relationships that are being created సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: C. It organizes the prevailing meanings and values of a social order సమాధానం: C.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: A. An analysis of culture as a material and historical process of production సమాధానం: A.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: D. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: D.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: B. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: B.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: D. Assertion is incorrect, but Reason is correct సమాధానం: D.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. 1-II, 2-III, 3-I, 4-IV సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. 1-I, 2-II, 3-III, 4-IV సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. Culture and Society → The Long Revolution → Keywords → Marxism and Literature సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. Treating cultural values as timeless and socially independent సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. Williams's analysis of cultural institutions and production సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: C. Emergent culture సమాధానం: C.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: D. An active residual cultural form సమాధానం: D.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: B. Williams treats culture materially and socially, while idealist approaches may separate it from material production సమాధానం: B.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. Literature is a socially produced practice that can also shape cultural meanings సమాధానం: C.