The correspondence model reduces political analysis to automatic schema-building

Evidence

This has the theoretical effect of forcing us to abandon schematic constructions of how classes should, ideally and abstractly, behave politically in place of the concrete study of how they actually do behave, in real historical conditions. It has frequently been a consequence of the old correspondence model that the analysis of classes and other related social forces as political forces, and the study of the terrain of politics itself, has become a rather automatic, schematic, and residual activity. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 139

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contentious politics analysis must steer between abstraction and particularity — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 288