Cultural and ideological factors shape social problems rather than merely reflecting economics

Evidence

Although influenced by sociological and criminological thinking, the overarching object of analysis in PTC was not “crime” or even “society,” but “the social formation,” conceptualized as an ensemble of practices, institutions, forces, and contradictions. PTC treated the cultural, ideological, and discursive aspects of the “mugging” phenomenon, along with its legal, social, economic, and political dimensions, as constitutive and overdetermining in their effects, not as secondary and dependent factors determined elsewhere. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1040

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘social formation’ as a non-reductionist unit of analysis and states the overdetermination claim central to cultural studies.
• XREF: connects to: Cultural conservatism tracks the cost of rent and social withdrawal. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 49; Cultural deprivation theories blame family values for what are really symptoms of economic deprivation. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1289; Economic and political problems are never only about economics or politics (+11 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Cultural conservatism tracks the cost of rent and social withdrawal. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 49; Cultural deprivation theories blame family values for what are really symptoms of economic deprivation. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1289; Economic and political problems are never only about economics or politics (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Immediacy across culture is overdetermined by economic conditions, not endogenous to theory #complicates (0.80) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 257
• Ideological factors lag behind economic ones and require conscious political struggle #complicates (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 719
• A society’s openness to foreign ideologies depends on its class crisis intensity #complicates (0.77)
• Civilizational culture determines economic and political development outcomes #complicates (0.75) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 45