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Social consciousness

Social consciousness or social awareness, is collective consciousness shared by individuals within a society.[1]

Social consciousness is linked to the collective self-awareness and experience of collectively shared social identity.[2] 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.[1] Marx said:

Civic intelligence

Class consciousness

Collective consciousness

Collective intelligence

Consciousness raising

Self awareness

Social conscience

Social intelligence

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