Objective living conditions frame but do not determine working-class consciousness

Evidence

Much of what can be measured is merely the conditions of their lives and not their social, moral, and ideological contents. The objective conditions, rhythms, and patterns of the proletarianization of English labor frame that experience, but do not determine it, thus the social eruptions of that class have persistently resisted a monotonic correlation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 229

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes measurable living conditions from the social, moral, and ideological contents of experience — a key method boundary for the book.