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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann
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Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, the influential phenomenological sociologists, have written that our sense of the universe in which we live is held together by conversation. When I say to an acquaintance whom I meet in the morning, “Nice day,” I do not convey primarily meteorological information—which would be redundant anyway, since he has the s
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