Later Cultural Studies theory deepened gaps Hoggart’s method left open.

Evidence

Much that followed in the evolution of Cultural Studies in the 1970s and 1980s were developments of the mixed and incomplete openings offered by The Uses of Literacy as a “text of the break”: resisting its cultural narrative while deepening the epistemological breaks that its methodology exemplified. Many of these leads were not conceptually developed, even in the “Schools of English and Contemporary Society” lecture, which mapped out the Cen tre’s initial program (Hoggart 1970). When the complaint about “the turn to theory” in Cultural Studies is made, it is difficult to see where else the Centre could have begun other than by deepening these breaks by way of sustained conceptual interrogation and methodological self-reflection—as it were, “working on the work.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 152

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific ‘epistemological breaks’ in Hoggart’s method did Hall see 1970s theory as developing, and where did that trajectory break from Hoggart himself?
• XREF: connects to: Cultural Studies must balance holding a position with open-ended ongoing theorizing.; The ‘turn to theory’ was the necessary deepening of Hoggart’s breaks; Ongoing theorizing, not finished Theory, is what Cultural Studies requires (+11 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Cultural Studies must balance holding a position with open-ended ongoing theorizing.; The ‘turn to theory’ was the necessary deepening of Hoggart’s breaks; Ongoing theorizing, not finished Theory, is what Cultural Studies requires (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• The ‘turn to theory’ was the necessary deepening of Hoggart’s breaks #corroborates (0.92)
• Abstracted theory that loses local situatedness betrays Cultural Studies’ core method. #complicates (0.76)