The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge¶
Berger, P. L., Luckmann, & Thomas. (1966). The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Doubleday.
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4 citations across 4 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- 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.
- 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.
Domain-specific¶
- Theme Reification
- That mechanism is the same epistemic-ontic confusion wearing different clothes, and it is what should carry any cross-domain lesson, because it appears everywhere under its own domain-specific names: the Marxist critique of commodity fetishism (the social relation treated as a property of the thing), the map-territory distinction (the model mistaken for the world), Goodhart-style metric reification (the proxy score treated as the target it stands for), treating GDP as the economy, treating an org chart as the organisation, and treating DSM categories as natural kinds
This sourceReification as the apprehension of human phenomena, and of the products of human activity, as if they were things.
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“Reification is the apprehension of human phenomena as if they were things, that”
- That mechanism is the same epistemic-ontic confusion wearing different clothes, and it is what should carry any cross-domain lesson, because it appears everywhere under its own domain-specific names: the Marxist critique of commodity fetishism (the social relation treated as a property of the thing), the map-territory distinction (the model mistaken for the world), Goodhart-style metric reification (the proxy score treated as the target it stands for), treating GDP as the economy, treating an org chart as the organisation, and treating DSM categories as natural kinds
Mechanisms¶
- Revision Decision Memo
- Its whole function is to treat the category as authored and revisable rather than let it stand as natural fact — the opposite of reification.
This sourceDefines reification as treating humanly authored categories as natural facts independent of their creators.
- Its whole function is to treat the category as authored and revisable rather than let it stand as natural fact — the opposite of reification.
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