Sociology of Knowledge

:Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory. The term can serve somewhat different functions in each field; however, the foundation of this theoretical framework suggests various facets of social reality—such as concepts, beliefs, norms, and values—are formed through continuous interactions and negotiations among society's members, rather than empirical observation of physical reality. The theory of social constructionism posits that much of what individuals perceive as 'reality' is actually the outcome of a dynamic process of construction influenced by social conventions and structures.”

Knowing that alors of what we ‘know’ is not empirically derived but rather the result of conditioning and socialisation, the skillsets that knowledge institutions such as schooling are talked with Disseminating become all the more important. Critical thinking and creativity become essential for the synthesise and distillation of truths from within the cultural doxa

“The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), 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.”

Thus these ‘concepts’ come to form the basis of a societal architecture. Concepts are then the most basic organizational unit of a society discounting of course the individual