Practicing academic writing / Triangulation

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Topic matter // Critical Positions on Popular Culture - Production & Consumption

A number of authors have considered how the causes of developments and changes in human society have effected the way in which humans collectively produce the necessities of life. Williamson (1978), Marcuse (1968) and Marx (1857) have all commented upon the fact that as the forces of production improve, existing forms of social organisation become inefficient and stifle further progress. This results in a manifestation of social contradictions, producing competition between people of different classes and creating the idea that economic activity effects social processes. For instance Williamson comments on the distinctions between people, created by their role in the process of production, as workers, it is the products of their own work that are used, Obscuring the real structure of society by replacing class with the distinctions made by the consumption of goods. This is supported by the fact that Marcuse recognises the products ability to manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood, it becomes a way of life, a good way of life - much better than before. This position is clearly further emphasised by Marx and his contribution to the critique, highlighting that the mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general.
These three authors support the argument that the forces of production and the development of the productive forces, turned into chains restraining society, creating a distinctive period of social revolution.