Extended sociological study converts causality into homology and parallelism

Evidence

Thus the full-scale study of superstructures, the construction of the historical trope, not to lyrical but rather to extended and epic proportions, presupposes a transcendence of the atomistic nature of the cultural term: it is essentially the difference between the juxtaposition of an individual novel against its socio-economic background, and the history of the novel seen against this same background. In effect, at this point a relationship which was that of form to background, of point to field, gives place to the superposition of two fields, two series, two continua; the language of causality gives way to that of analogy or homology, of parallelism. … Thus it turns out that as a marketable commodity on the spiritual level, the nineteenth-century novel may also be said to have known its version of a stage of “primitive accumulation of capital”: the names of Scott and Balzac may be associated with this initial stockpiling of social and anecdotal raw material for processing and ultimate transformation into marketable, that is to say narratable, shapes and forms. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 44 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The problem of mediation links psychological, social, and economic levels — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 20; Dialectical style requires self-awareness inscribed in the sentence; Dialectical criticism of superstructures shifts from causal point-field analysis to homology between two continua — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 44 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Dialectical criticism of superstructures shifts from causal point-field analysis to homology between two continua #corroborates (0.95) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 44
• Structuralism introduced a new kind of non-reflective causality between social and mental categories. #qualifies (0.75)