Ideological positions reproduce social positions in transfigured form.

Evidence

Simmel’s extraordinary originality may well be connected with his position as a relatively isolated thinker. He was, indeed, a “stranger” in the academy. The stylistic manifestations of a marginal position are striking in his written work. Neither in Simmel’s text nor in annotations does one find acknowledgment of scholarly predecessors or contemporaries. He speaks for himself, along with the immortal dead. What is more, Simmel deliberately shied away from recruiting disciples to carry on his kinds of inquiry. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ideology masks class by fragmenting people into individuals bound as consumers and citizens; Political representation actively constitutes the class it claims to express; Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role (+9 more)

Related

• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position (similarity 0.86)
• Social formations form complex unities structured in dominance rather than expressive identities. (similarity 0.83)
• Intellectuals’ self-image as autonomous shapes ideology and politics. (similarity 0.83)
• Social movements generate theory rather than merely applying it (similarity 0.82)
• Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty (similarity 0.81)
• A constructed ideal intellectual combines Third World origin with metropolitan location (similarity 0.80)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.80)
• Market ideology fragments classes into individual consumers and hides production (similarity 0.80)
• Ideology works by framing alternatives within a range rather than dictating thought. (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.79)
• Social types can embody an all-dominating orientation to the world (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position #exemplifies (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10
• Modes of determination allow ideological superstructures more than a residual role #corroborates (0.70)
• Marxism reads social formations as overdetermined unities with relatively autonomous levels #expands (0.55)
• Capitalist production relations are reproduced socially and ideologically, not just economically #corroborates (0.50)
• Social formations form complex unities structured in dominance rather than expressive identities. #expands (0.50)
• Ideology and material practice relate through systematic disjuncture, not correspondence #complicates (0.45)
• Ideological forms like wages serve to maintain capitalist domination #exemplifies (0.45) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 903