Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy

In his article, Lawrence Grossberg’s dissects Nicholas Garnham’s critique of cultural studies and political economy, and completely contradicts everything Garnaham tried to argue. Grossberg explains the fact that the relationship between the two is in no way like the explanation that Garnham presented, but that Cultural studies only rejected the way some political economists go about practicing political economy. Cultural studies wont venture too deeply into the economic, which is a factor of criticism in political economy. But this is only because of the effect of the reductionist models, and the consequence of getting trapped in this terminology. The question of articulation is a main difference in the two fields, “which is, of course, the principle way in which the relations between production, consumption, politics, and ideology are theorized in cultural studies. The self-production of culture is the main point of cultural studies. Very similar to the studies in sociology, this conveys the way people present themselves by the means of their cultures. Culture is the main face of the human race, and it is the key factor that shapes people into who they are and what they become.