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The social construction of reality : a treatise in the sociology of knowledge / Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann.
LIBRA BD175 .B4 1967
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Peter L., 1929-2017, author.
- Luckmann, Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph, February, 1970) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 219 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, N. Y., Anchor Books 1967, 1966.
- Summary:
- This 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The problem of the sociology of knowledge
- Foundations of knowledge in everyday life: Reality of everyday life
- Social interaction in everyday life
- Language and knowledge in everyday life
- Society as objective reality: Institutionalization: Organism and activity
- Origins of institutionalization
- Sedimentation and tradition
- Roles
- Scope and modes of institutionalization
- Legitimation: Origins of Symbolic universes
- Conceptual machineries of universe-maintenance
- Social organization for universe-maintenance
- Society as subjective reality: Internalization of reality: Primary socialization
- Secondary socialization
- Maintenance and transformation of subjective reality
- Internalization and social structure
- Theories about identity
- Organism and identity
- Conclusion: The sociology of knowledge and sociological theory.
- Notes:
- Anchor books A589.
- "Copyright ©1966 by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0385058985
- OCLC:
- 3154402
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