Raymond Williams (Llanfihangel Crucorney, Wales, August 31, 1921 - Saffron Walden, Essex, England, January 26, 1988), Welsh intellectual, belonging, along with others, called Circle of Birmingham (British Marxists, the decades of '50 and '60). These intellectuals are beginning to belong to the Communist Party, which move away by differences with the orthodox sector. That group Aboca, especially the development of a history of cultural type.After studying at Trinity College in Cambridge he taught drama at the University of Cambridge (1974-1983). Especially influential is his book "Culture and Society 1780-1950" published in 1958.The originality of this author is that addressed their research from a "culturalist Marxist" outlook, being very aware of the implications of culture in historical processes and social change. Williams was formed as a Marxist of subjectivity whose interest was to introduce into thinking that line the centrality of consciousness, oriented by values, as opposed to Marxism of objectivity action, social change attributed to a number of beyond the conscious will of men forces