Logical abstraction is simultaneously a sociological abstraction.

Evidence

Thought is always more and other than individual thinking; if I start thinking of individual persons in a specific situation, I find them in a supra-individual context of which they partake, and I think in general concepts. All objects of thought are universals. But it is equally true that the supra-individual meaning, the universality of a concept, is never merely a formal one; it is constituted in the interrelationship between the (thinking and acting) subjects and their world. Logical abstraction is also sociological abstraction. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 528

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the sociological bearing of conceptual universality: concepts are never neutral but constituted in subject-world relationships.
• XREF: connects to: Sociological method can unify disciplines through shared abstract generality. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1446; Postmodern abstractions that claim universality are actually local and self-inverting. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 850; Conceptual abstraction is itself a metaphorical act because it posits resemblance among distinct existents — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 507 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Logical categories mirror social hierarchy and division of labor, not solidarity #corroborates (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 43
• Sociological method can unify disciplines through shared abstract generality. #expands (0.80) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 1446
• Postmodern abstractions that claim universality are actually local and self-inverting. #qualifies (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 850
• Linguistic and social structure were conceived simultaneously as ideal existences #corroborates (0.72)
• Conceptual abstraction is itself a metaphorical act because it posits resemblance among distinct existents #complicates (0.70) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 507