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Josephine Ott

Graduate student of Sociology at The New School for Social Research.
Theory & Practice

The Social Condition, Modern Identity and Youth

April 19, 2015 • by Josephine Ott
When we turn the sociological focus away from social effects and social construction towards the social condition, it becomes clear that our everyday life is structured around thousands of decisions that are influenced by an underlying social condition: the self as subject and object, as a distinctive being on its ...
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