superstructure

is a dialectic between utopian imagination and the new technological potential.

superstructure as a diaclectic between utopian imagination and the new technological potential. . . ' (Buck-Morss 56).

is immaterial public capital (i.e. Knowledge networks, communication, education, culture, etc.) while infrastructure is material public capital (i.e. Roads, railways, airports, pipelines, etc.).

Nijkamp referred to infrastructure as material public capital (roads, railways, airports, pipelines etc.) and superstructure meaning immaterial public capital (knowledge networks, communication, education, culture, etc.)

is in a dialectical (rather than a real) distinction with base.

The relationship between superstructure and base is considered to be a dialectical one, not a distinction between actual entities 'in the world'.' (wiki). . . 'vulgar determinism.' The term is hard to define sharply because there are few proponents of vulgar determinism per se who will enter a debate on its behalf. Basically, it involves the assumption that the ideological superstructure is totally passive, merely reflecting processes that are going on elsewhere in the economic base. Thus, one might describe ROCKY as a 'bourgeois' effort to baffle and confound the working class, deluding the audience with false hope and distracting it from its revolutionary tasks' (Net)

is that which controls the infrastructure.

During the session on capitalism Braudel swiftly dealt with the question of ideology. 'When you say that capitalism is a superstructure,' Paul Fabra, the editor of Le Monde asked, 'are you using the word superstructure in a Marxist sense'' Braudel's response was that 'structure', which could be both superstructure and infrastructure, corresponded with the social, economic, and the cultural reality, as part of the 'longue duree' of which religion, for example, was a phenomenon. 'You are not using the word superstructure,' Immanuel Wallerstein added, 'in the Marxist sense. For Marx, infrastructure controlled the superstructure, while for you, in a sense, the superstructure is the dominant element. Braudel concluded the exchange by saying that for him the phenomenon of structures was one which remained invariant over time. It had nothing to do with the structuralism of Levi-Strauss or some of the French sociologist and philosophers.

is the set of socio-psychological feedback loops that maintain a coherent and meaningful structure in a given society, or part thereof. It can include the culture, institutions, power structures, roles, and rituals of the society. It is that which, through conditioned behaviors (both interpersonal and situational), enforces a set of constraints and guidelines on human activity in a stable and effective fashion, such that it engenders a society's character.

In social sciences, superstructure is the set of socio-psychological feedback loops that maintain a coherent and meaningful structure in a given society, or part thereof. It can include the culture, institutions, power structures, roles, and rituals of the society. It is that which, through conditioned behaviors (both interpersonal and situational), enforces a set of constraints and guidelines on human activity in a stable and effective fashion, such that it engenders a society's characteristic organization, and it is that characteristic organization itself. . . .By most sociological schema, superstructure does not refer to the specific materials of an organization, such as a school or a store, but rather to the set of psychological or semantic configurations whereby that structure is rationalized and reproduced in human experience. That is, it is the 'invisible force' behind or within the structure, or perhaps, it is the anthropocentric 'reason' for the structure'According to one sociological perspective, superstructure may be revealed by examining the direct interpersonal engagements that take place within canonical (typical) settings or situations, through the hermeneutic of sociobiology. . .

is the particular form through which subjectivity engages with material substance.

Within Marxist social theory, superstructure is the particular form through which human subjectivity engages with the material substance of society. The form is to an extent objective and to an extent subjective.

is the worthless idea that social phenomena could be explained by relating them to economic causes.

THE'a more detailed analysis of Weber's views of Marxism shows that Weber took exception, above all else, to the Marxist theory of 'superstructure'. Weber never accepted the thesis that all social phenomena could be explained sufficiently by relating them to economic causes: 'the common materialist view of history, that the 'economic' is in some sense an 'ultimate' in the chain of causation, is in my estimation totally worthless as a scientific statement. Weber ignored the fact that Marx and Engels's position on the matter was much more sophisticated'

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