Novel or troubling events only make sense once mapped onto existing connotative domains

Evidence

New, problematic, or troubling things and events, which breach our expectancies and run counter to our “common-sense constructs,” to our “taken-for-granted” knowledge of social structures, must be assigned to their connotational domains before they can be said to “make sense”: and the most common way of “mapping them” is to assign the new within some domain or other of the existing “maps of problematic social reality.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 802

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to cognitive/conceptual-confine literature and to how novel economic phenomena (e.g. platform labor) get slotted into inherited classifications before they can be understood. — connects to: Contentious events in any setting fall into a limited number of repeating categories — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 313; Only unexpected violations in familiar settings threaten meaning frameworks — Travis Proulx, Steven J. Heine, and Kathleen D. Vohs, When Is the Unfamiliar the Uncanny?…, 11; Events and constancies are mutually exclusive yet mutually defining — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 117 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Contentious events in any setting fall into a limited number of repeating categories — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 313; Only unexpected violations in familiar settings threaten meaning frameworks — Travis Proulx, Steven J. Heine, and Kathleen D. Vohs, When Is the Unfamiliar the Uncanny?…, 11; Events and constancies are mutually exclusive yet mutually defining — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 117 (+6 more)