The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1966

Link

https://archive.org/details/socialconstructi0000bergmatched

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sociology_anthropology

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• Institution
  • It separates the standing pattern from the persons enacting it and the organization housing it, naming the self-reproducing structure that survives turnover, a separation Berger and Luckmann (1966) trace through their account of habitualization hardening into institution via reciprocal typification.

    This sourceCanonical statement that knowledge—including scientific theory—is socially constructed through interpretive activity; meaning is imposed on experience rather than recovered from it.

• Social Construction of Reality
  • Social construction of reality is the thesis and analytical lens, canonically articulated by Berger and Luckmann 1966, that substantial portions of what participants in a society treat as objective reality — roles, institutions, categories, statuses, facts-about-social-kinds — exist only through a specifiable joint process of human activity that both produces and maintains them

    This sourceCanonical statement that knowledge—including scientific theory—is socially constructed through interpretive activity; meaning is imposed on experience rather than recovered from it.

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