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Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann · 1966
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What this book knows
Reality is not discovered but collectively built: society simultaneously produces and is produced by human meaning-making.
self-and-identity
How is it possible that subjective meanings become objective facticities? Human activity should produce a world of things.
VLA-0CE7B705-RC-018What is 'real' to a Tibetan monk may not be 'real' to an American businessman — knowledge is socially relative.
VLA-0CE7B705-RC-005From the moment of birth, man's organismic development and biological being are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.
VLA-0CE7B705-RC-043mind-and-cognition
Man's relationship to his environment is characterized by world-openness — unlike animals, humans inhabit no biologically fixed world.
VLA-0CE7B705-RC-042I know there is an ongoing correspondence between my meanings and their meanings — we share a common sense about reality.
VLA-0CE7B705-RC-022obedience-and-authority
I know my orders are always obeyed, but I cannot know all the steps and motives between issuance and execution — despots are endemically nervous.
VLA-0CE7B705-RC-040Illuminates
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