Intellectual strata can be graded by their organic connection to a dominant social group

Evidence

It should be possible both to measure the “organic quality” [organicita ] of the various intellectual strata and their degree of connection with a fundamental social group, and to establish a gradation of their functions and of the superstructures from the bottom to the top (from the structural base upwards). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 277

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the organic/traditional intellectual distinction as a measurable gradation.
• XREF: connects to: Indexical tie creation is inherently ideological and builds bottom-up group norms. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 59