Marxist literature has forever emphasized the role that production and consumption have had on the making of social and cultural identity. Consumption could be viewed as the production of identities and by using this concept it could be understood how economics and culture affect one another. An economic act is simultaneously a cultural act and vice versa. Consumption is a universal process that makes life possible while production is related to survival with preconceptions of …showed first 75 words of 968 total…

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