Cultural and political power relations operate outside the social relations of production

Evidence

In addition, however, there are other relations which are not ascribable within the “social relations of production.” These include distinctions at the level of culture and values—maintained, for example, by such institutional structures as the system of Bantu education and forms of political power—established through the separation of political and economic power, such as the control of political power by the whites. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 593

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• XREF: Hall’s insistence on relations ‘not ascribable within the social relations of production’ is a hallmark of the ‘articulation’ approach — connects to his work on race and class and to Althusser’s notion of relative autonomy.

Related

• Race cannot be given singular meaning nor can economy alone determine all social outcomes. (similarity 0.79)
• Culture operates as a weapon of power in modern society (similarity 0.78)