How our lives are shaped by social structures and within them? With a bold and deeply personal book, Nikos Panayiotopoulos turns his sociological analytical gaze not at others but at the more demanding subject: himself.

Using sociological analysis, he examines his life as a dynamic space where individual experiences, social structures, and historical conditions are constantly intertwined. From his earliest experiences and socialization to his academic journey, conflicts, crises, and internal journeys that shaped him—from refugee and working-class neighborhoods to Pierre Bourdieu's Paris and academic life— the author demonstrates that the self is never purely personal.

With honesty and reflection, Nikos Panayiotopoulos addresses those interested in sociology, (auto)sociological analysis, and how our personal stories are always more social than we think.

A theoretically equipped confession. A personal narrative with a sociological perspective. A book that connects the individual with the collective, the experiential with the theoretical, the personal with the social, life with knowledge.