Justice requires understanding how social structures constitute our very selves

Evidence

If we really want to further the cause of justice, we need to understand how discursive and material structures – race, capitalism, nation-states, orientalism, family, and liberalism itself – shape our very emergence as differentiated ‘human’ by establishing and then occluding hierarchical relations among us. We need, in other words, a view of the human that focuses on the social and psychological processes of self-formation in a context that acknowledges, as Chow states, how we can be ‘at the mercy’ of broad ideological and social structures that in many ways ‘speak and act’ us. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 362 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Cf. the sixth of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach : “The human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In its reality it is the ensemble of social relations… .” — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2517 (#expands, via linked claim)

For such a thing as vocation to be possible, there must exist that harmony, whatever its origin, between the structure and development of society, and individual qualities and impulses. It is this general premise that constitutes the ultimate basis of the idea that for every personality there exist a position and a function in society to which he is called and which he must seek and find. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 191 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Recognition-based justice inherently demands structural and institutional critique, not merely internal self-realization — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 80; Justice requires analyzing how social structures constitute and conceal our identities — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 362; Justice perceptions act differently depending on which layer of self-identity is engaged — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2356 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Justice requires analyzing how social structures constitute and conceal our identities #corroborates (0.96) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 362
• Humans are constituted by their social relations rather than an intrinsic essence #expands (0.92) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2517
• Society presupposes a harmony between its structure and individual inner callings #complicates (0.73) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 191