Articulation theory can still avoid both vulgar reductionism and sociological pluralism

Evidence

To reduce the two types of rule in this way to a single type would, however, obscure their character and subordinate what is of central importance in the game to what is merely ancillary. It is worth considering how far the reductionist legal theories, criticized in this chapter, similarly obscure the diverse functions which different types of legal rules have in the system of social activity of which they form part. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 649 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Articulation rejects reducing one societal level to expression of another.; Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions; Discourse theory’s claim that nothing exists outside discourse is reductionism upward (+4 more)

Related

• Reductionist legal theories obscure the diverse functions of rules within a social system (similarity 0.81)
• Articulation rejects reducing one societal level to expression of another. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity #expands (0.70)
• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction #exemplifies (0.60)
• Reductionist legal theories obscure the diverse functions of rules within a social system #exemplifies (0.40) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 649