Anti-reductionist plural explanations often remain descriptive rather than analytic.
Evidence
If the dominant tendency of the first paradigm is to attempt to command all differences and specificities within the framework of a simplifying economic logic, then that of the second is to stop short with a set of plural explanations which lack an adequate theorization, and which in the end are descriptive rather than analytic. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 585
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Characterizes the two competing paradigms on race: economic reductionism vs. descriptive pluralism, and their respective weaknesses.