Social consciousness
Template:Short description Social consciousness (or social awareness) is collective consciousness shared by individuals within a society.<ref name=Quest>Social Consciousness Template:Webarchive, 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.</ref>
Social consciousness is linked to the collective self-awareness and experience of collectively shared social identity.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> From this viewpoint, social consciousness denotes conscious awareness of being part of an interrelated community of others. The “we feeling” or the “sense of us” may be experienced in members of various cultures and social groups. By the experience of collectively shared social identity, individuals may experience social unity. Social consciousness may also stimulate working towards a common goal.
According to Karl Marx, human beings enter into certain productive, or economic, relations and these relations lead to a form of social consciousness.<ref name="Quest" /> Marx said:
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Further reading
- Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
- Children's Social Consciousness and the Development of Social Responsibility
- Class Structure in the Social Consciousness, Volume 102
- Language, ideology and social consciousness: developing a sociohistorical approach
- Literature, social consciousness, and polity
- Theology and the social consciousness: a study of the relations of the social consciousness to theology