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Journal Article
Position, Mediation, and the Architecture of Social Experience
2026
Overview
Contemporary social theory has extensively examined how structural arrangements shape social life, yet the mediating processes through which structural conditions are translated into lived experience remain insufficiently conceptualised. This article addresses this gap by developing an analytical framework that reconceptualises social position as a mediating configuration through which social reality becomes experientially organised. Rather than treating position as a fixed location within social hierarchies or as a subjective standpoint, the article conceptualises it as a historically sedimented relational formation that structures perception, normativity, affect, and practical orientation. On this basis, the article advances an analytical model in which inequality is understood not only as a structural distribution of resources and power, but also as an experiential organisation of social relations, shaping how constraints, opportunities, and recognition are encountered in everyday life. Subjectivity and agency are analysed as emerging within positionally structured relations of power and mediation, rather than as pre-social or purely individual capacities. By articulating social position as a constitutive form of mediation, the article contributes to sociological analysis by clarifying how structure, history, and subjectivity are internally articulated within lived social experience, offering a conceptual framework that moves beyond dualist accounts of structure and agency.
