Let us look at a few articulations on the relationship between power and culture:

a)  “Representation in the mediated “Reality” of our mass culture is in itself Power .” (Larry Gross in Durham and Kellner)

b)  “The forms of power that Cultural Studies explores are diverse and include gender, race, class, colonialism, etc. Cultural Studies seeks to explore the connections between these forms of power and develop ways of thinking about culture and power that can be utilized by agents in the pursuit of change.” (Chris Barker, Cultural Studies )

c)  “… the power of words and ideas, of stories and imagination, of passion and experience in the building of worlds, worlds that include some but exclude others, that congratulate some but disparage others and that allow some to accumulate great symbolic, cultural and economic wealth and for others to have very little.” (David Oswell)

d)  “Culture is a critical site of social action and intervention, where power relations are both established and potentially unsettled. It works primarily by inserting the subordinate class into the key institutions and structures which support the power and social authority of the dominate order. It is, above all, in these structures and relations that a subordinate class lives its subordination.” (Stuart Hall in Procter)