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subject position
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Working Definition:

The way in which persons are positioned by others. The position one assumes within a group or an institution by virtue of the practices one performs.

E.g., by virtue of behaving like a student (studying) one is given or one assumes a position in relation to others in the same school that governs how you behave

Disciplinary Definitions:

Althusser describes subjects as interpolated into (automatically drawn into) institutional state apparatuses such as schools, religions, armies, or governments by being assigned a position there in relation to other persons who belong to the institution. Althusser" Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatuses" in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

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