Social consciousness

Social consciousness is consciousness shared by individuals within a society.[1] According to Karl Marx, human beings enter into certain productive, or economic, relations and these relations lead to a form of social consciousness.[1] Marx said:

"In the social production of their life, men enter into definite relations that are indispensable and independent of their will; these relations of production correspond to a definite stage of development of their material forces of production. The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society — the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life determines the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Social Consciousness Questia, 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Marx, Karl. (1859) "Preface" in A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.

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