Editing Private sphere (section)

{{Short description|Sphere opposite the public sphere centred on individuality and personal autonomy}}
The '''private sphere''' is the complement or opposite to the [[public sphere]]. The private sphere is a certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority and tradition, unhampered by interventions from governmental, economic or other institutions. Examples of the private sphere are [[high society]], [[religion]], [[sex]], [[family]] and [[home]].

In public-sphere theory, on the [[bourgeois]] model, the private sphere is that domain of one's life in which one works for oneself. In that domain, people work, exchange goods, and maintain their families; it is therefore, in that sense, separate from the rest of society.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society|last= Habermas|first=Jurgen |translator1= Thomas Burger |translator2=  Frederic Lawrence |year= 1989|publisher=MIT Press |location= Massachusetts|isbn= 978-0-262-58108-0}}</ref>