The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of KnowledgeThis 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. |
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actions Alfred Schutz analysis apprehended Arnold Gehlen become biography biological body of knowledge child Claude Lévi-Strauss cognitive concept conceptual machinery consciousness constructed context course defined definitions of reality deviant dialectic distribution of knowledge Durkheim economic surplus empirical example existence experience face-to-face situation Georg Simmel historical human sexuality identity ideology implies important individual individual's institutional order institutionalization integration intellectual interaction interest internalized language latter legitimation Mannheim's marginal situations Marx Marxism meaning meaningful mediated mythology nihilation nomic objectivated objective one's philosophical plausibility structure possible pragmatic primary socialization problem produced question reality of everyday reification relationship relevant roles Scheler's secondary socialization sense sexual significant social processes social structure social world society sociologist sociology of knowl sociology of knowledge specific stock of knowledge subjective reality subuniverses symbolic universe taken-for-granted Talcott Parsons Theodor Geiger theoretical Thomas Luckmann thought tion tional tradition types typifications universe-maintaining Voudun