The Social Construction of Reality: An Analysis of Berger and Luckmann’s Work
Introduction Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s seminal work, “The Social Construction of Reality” (1966), presents a comprehensive framework for understanding the societal processes through which knowledge and reality are constructed. This treatise, emerging from the phenomenological tradition in sociology, has profoundly influenced social theory, challenging positivist notions of objective reality and emphasizing the role […]