The Social Construction of Reality

by Berger, Peter L.; Luckmann, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780385058988
• ISBN10: 0385058985
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781453215463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1967-07-11
• Publisher: Anchor
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Summary

This book reformulates the sociological subdiscipline known as the sociology of knowledge. Knowledge is presented as more than ideology, including as well false consciousness, propaganda, science and art.

Author Biography

PETER L. BERGER is University Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University. He is the author of, among other books, Invitation to Sociology, The Sacred Canopy, and The Capitalist Revolution.

THOMAS LUCKMANN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz (West Germany). He is the author of, among other books, The Invisible Religion and (with Alfred Schutz) Structures of the Life-World.

 

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Introduction: The Problem of the Sociology of Knowledge	1	(18)
I. The Foundations of Knowledge in Everyday Life	19	(28)
1. The Reality of Everyday Life	19	(9)
2. Social Interaction in Everyday Life	28	(6)
3. Language and Knowledge in Everyday Life	34	(13)
II. Society as Objective Reality	47	(82)
1. Institutionalization	47	(45)
a. Organism and Activity	47	(6)
b. Origins of Institutionalization	53	(14)
c. Sedimentation and Tradition	67	(5)
d. Roles	72	(7)
e. Scope and Modes of Institutionalization	79	(13)
2. Legitimation	92	(37)
a. Origins of Symbolic Universes	92	(12)
b. Conceptual Machineries of Universe-Maintenance	104	(12)
c. Social Organization for Universe-Maintenance	116	(13)
III. Society as Subjective Reality	129	(56)
1. Internalization of Reality	129	(34)
a. Primary Socialization	129	(9)
b. Secondary Socialization	138	(9)
c. Maintenance and Transformation of Subjective Reality	147	(16)
2. Internalization and Social Structure	163	(10)
3. Theories about Identity	173	(7)
4. Organism and Identity	180	(5)
Conclusion: The Sociology of Knowledge and Sociological Theory	185	(6)
Notes	191	(18)
Subject Index	209	(8)
Name Index for Introduction and Notes	217