Book Summary: The Social Construction of Reality by Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann
<p>The focus of this book, its thesis, is not that society determines reality in some metaphysical sense. The authors clearly acknowledge that what they are examining exists within the scope of sociology and questions regarding the absolute reality from which all social realities flow is something belonging properly to philosophy.</p>
<p>What then is the subject of analysis? The question at hand is how does what passes for “knowledge” and “reality” within a given social situation or context achieve this status? How do groups of people come to share an agreed upon “reality?” This is not a question regarding complex matters of theory, rather it pertains to the commonplace world that is shared by everyone.</p>
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