The Sociology of Culture was published in 1981, exactly twenty years after The Long Revolution. It provides a revisitation of most of the themes of that earlier book. This revisitation is conducted from the vantage point of Williams's theoretical reworkings undertaken in the interim. Missing from this revisitation, however, is the explicitly normative dimension of The Long Revolution. That was to be provided two years later, in Towards 2000 and was to continue in the planned work, The Politics of Modernism: against the new conformists.