Nonreductionist analysis must trace movement through the whole social formation, not just the base

Evidence

Now this latter concept is the conception to which Gramsci addressed himself. This is what he meant by saying that the relationship between “structure” and “superstructures,” or the “passage” of any organic historical movement right through the whole social formation, from economic “base” to the sphere of ethico-political relations, was at the heart of any nonreductionist or economistic type of analysis. To pose and resolve that question was to conduct an analysis, properly founded on an understanding of the complex relationships of overdetermination between the different social practices in any social formation. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 98

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The ‘passage’ through the social formation is Hall’s staging ground for his later formulation of race and racism as relatively autonomous ideologies needing conjunctural analysis.

Related

• Gramsci centers the base-superstructure passage as the root of nonreductionist analysis (similarity 0.89)
• The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology. (similarity 0.85)
• Structure and superstructure connect only through historically specific mechanisms, not automatic correspondence. (similarity 0.81)
• Racism is reorganized by each mode of production and never reducible to other relations (similarity 0.80)
• Economic structure constrains but does not determine political and ideological levels. (similarity 0.80)
• Social formations are complex unities structured in dominance, not determined by a single cause (similarity 0.79)
• Economic structures set limits but never fully determine political outcomes (similarity 0.79)
• Non-reductionist superstructural theory rests on the concept of articulation (similarity 0.79)
• Economic-only explanations of culture cannot capture conjunctural specificity (similarity 0.79)
• Economism reduces all social relations to direct economic determination (similarity 0.79)
• Poststructuralist concepts drop the ideological dimension that social analysis needs. (similarity 0.79)
• Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures (similarity 0.78)