The Social Construction Of Reality: A Treatise In The Sociology Of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann

Proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume reciprocal social roles. When those social roles are available for other members of society to assume and portray, their reciprocal, social interactions are said to be institutionalized behaviours. In that process of the social construction of reality, the meaning of the social role is embedded to society as cultural knowledge. As a work about the sociology of knowledge, influenced by the work of Alfred Schütz, The Social Construction of Reality introduced the term social construction and influenced the establishment of the field of social constructionism. In 1998, the International Sociological Association listed The Social Construction of Reality as the fifth most-important book of 20th-century sociology.

Publisher:	Penguin
Year:	1971
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780140600018
Condition:	Fair
Description:	Cover worn, particularly on spine. Pages tanned with foxing on edges. Otherwise good readable condition.

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SKU: 1590291
Location: Social Sciences