Articulation resists fixed definition though it marks a theoretical rupture

Evidence

The term “articulation” is a complex one, variously employed and defined in the literature here referred to. No clear consensus of conceptual definition can be said to have emerged so far. Yet it remains the site of a significant theoretical rupture (coupure ) and intervention. This is the intervention principally associated with the work of Althusser and the “school” of structuralist Marxism. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 615

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Establishes the conceptual status of ‘articulation’ as an open, unresolved term rooted in Althusserian structuralism — central to Hall’s theory of race and class.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing how Hall’s own later accounts of articulation differ from the unresolved, multiple senses mapped here.

Related

• Articulation lacks one settled definition yet marks a pivotal theoretical rupture in structuralist Marxism (similarity 0.93)
• Articulation links different social structures through their differences, not their identities. (similarity 0.84)
• Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions (similarity 0.83)
• Articulation’s double meaning creates a risk of reductionist epiphenomenalism. (similarity 0.81)
• Articulation lets distinct practices with different contradictions be thought together. (similarity 0.81)
• Race and class must be articulated analytically, reduced to neither essence nor epiphenomenon. (similarity 0.80)
• Articulation means contingent, breakable linkages between ideas and social forces, not necessary belonging. (similarity 0.80)
• Ideological elements carry no fixed political meaning by themselves (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology and social force connect by articulation, never by necessity (similarity 0.80)
• Non-reductionist superstructural theory rests on the concept of articulation (similarity 0.80)
• Articulation rejects reducing one societal level to expression of another. (similarity 0.78)
• Race cannot be given singular meaning nor can economy alone determine all social outcomes. (similarity 0.78)
• Meaning and social relations form not sequentially but through structural articulation within a whole (similarity 0.78)
• Ideological change operates by articulating and disarticulating ideas, not by substitution. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions #expands (0.70)
• Articulation theory can still avoid both vulgar reductionism and sociological pluralism #expands (0.40) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 620