No dominant culture ever exhausts the full range of human practice

Evidence

Williams therefore understands any society to contain many more systems of meaning and value than those incorporated in its “central system of practices, meanings and values”—“no mode of production and therefore no dominant society or order … and therefore no dominant culture in reality exhausts human practice, human energy, human intention.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 904

Categorization

• XREF: This anti-totalizing claim parallels James C. Scott’s ‘weapons of the weak’ and Bourdieu’s habitus theory of unexhausted practice. — connects to: People need culture generally but not allegiance to any single cultural framework. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 924; No culture is prime or primordial within Relation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 814