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Social Construction of Reality – Internalization – Berger & Luckmann
Berger, Peter L., Thomas Luckmann, and Texas Tech University. Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor Book. New York: Doubleday, 1967. Socialization: [T]he comprehensive and consistent induction of an individual into the objective world of a society or a sector of it” (130). Having…
Externalization, Objectivation, and Internalization – Berger & Luckmann
Berger, Peter L., Thomas Luckmann, and Texas Tech University. Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor Book. New York: Doubleday, 1967. “Society is a human product. Society is an objective reality. Man is a social product” (61). Berger and Luckman argue that one must…
The Social Construction of Reality – Berger & Luckmann
Berger, Peter L., Thomas Luckmann, and Texas Tech University. Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Anchor Book. New York: Doubleday, 1967. “Man’s consciousness is determined by his social being.” – Marx I open this post with the Marx quote because of its direct relevance…