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Cultural studies emerged from the break of social research from studies of political and economic structures to the interpretation of social relations within a particular society. The main objective was to break down the boundaries between cultural anthropology on the one hand and political economic research on the other. The present debates on whether the two are part of the same endeavor or should be separate and distinct from each other defeat the primary purpose of cultural studies.
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The criticisms against the theory that cultural studies and political economy had once been in close connection were presented from two levels: theoretical and political. The theoretical argument suffers from a misrepresentation of political economy as purely economics. The political argument begs its own question since its contention that democratic reform stems from conversation necessarily leads to economic and political issues.
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The primary objective of cultural studies is to determine how the mass media disempowers the community in the exercise of its political and economic power as against those in the dominant position in society. The argument on the breaking away of cultural studies from political economics has been carried on from an intellectual level. Cultural studies are not primarily concerned with this but on the influence of social reality.
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