The economic level cannot by itself determine other social levels

Evidence

Where, then, the relations between the different levels of a social formation are concerned, one needs additional concepts, i.e., to supply further determinations, to those which have been mobilized for the analysis of the economic “mode of production” levels. And one needs to acknowledge that the economic level, alone, cannot prescribe what those levels will be like and how they will operate—even if their mechanisms are not fully specifiable without attending to the level of the economic. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 625

Categorization

• DEFINE: Lays out the core non-reductionist claim animating Hall’s whole project - economic determinism rejected but economic reference retained.
• XREF: connects to: Social division is constitutive and cannot be explained by any positive ground — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 604; Economic activity cannot fully explain the scale of the American legal profession — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 999; Society’s laws cannot be physical laws because social aggregates transform quantitatively into quality — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1656 (+13 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Social division is constitutive and cannot be explained by any positive ground — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 604; Economic activity cannot fully explain the scale of the American legal profession — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 999; Society’s laws cannot be physical laws because social aggregates transform quantitatively into quality — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1656 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Economic level is necessary but not sufficient for explaining other levels #expands (0.95)
• The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology. #exemplifies (0.93) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621
• Economic structures are necessary but not sufficient to explain political and ideological features #exemplifies (0.93)