A standpoint theory can prevent sociologized thought from collapsing into consumerist pluralism.

Evidence

In my view, the method whereby a healthy sociologization of the cultural and conceptual can be prevented from disintegrating into the more obscene consumerist pluralisms of late capitalism as such is by way of the same philosophical strategy adopted by Lukacs for the development of class-ideological analysis -namely, to generalize its analysis of the constructive links between thought and a class or group standpoint, respectively, and to project a full-blown philosophical theory of the standpoint in which the generative production or transfer point between conceptuality and collective experience is brought to the foreground. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 699

Categorization

• QUESTION: Jameson offers the theory of the standpoint as his answer to crude pluralism — worth pursuing what a ‘standpoint’ model adds that group-adherence correlation alone lacks.