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The Social Construction of Reality: Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Peregrine Books) (Paperback)

by Peter L. Berger (Author), Thomas Luckmann (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (27 Sep 1979)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014055176X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140551761
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars See the world differently, 15 Aug 2000
This review is from: The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (Penguin Social Sciences) (Paperback)
This book is truely an eye opener. It encapsulates the processes by which relationships become typified and charts the formation of institutions as part of the sociology of knowledge. It identifies why we regard things as being objective reality rather than subjective and consequently variable, and has lead the reviewer to question what is imutable and permenant across a range of situations. Truely a great buy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thebible of social constructivism, 4 Feb 2006
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This book is the true classic in the area/stance known as social constructionism, to which it also lends its name. Presenting the explicit view that reality and truth is socially negotiated and maintained between members of societies and groups, Berger & Luckmann built one of the strongest basic pillars in the ongoing dispute between nature and nurture.

"The social construction of reality" is by now a classic, and even though it is written in a light and straightforward tone laced with vivid examples and scenarios, makung it easily accesible to most, it is not a work of popular science aimed at intertaining while it educates. It is simply well written, at times very essay-like and anecdotal, in arguing its main points.

The book has on several occasions been voted among the most influential and inspiring single books by college and universiy students. I myself have used it exessively in the course of my university study, and get surprised by how often it still 'pops up' with great relevance today. It is an important addition to the book-case of anyone with interest humanities, social sciences, or just how the society of man is put together.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, but...., 23 Feb 2007
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It is very good for a look at the processes of socialization and indoctrination, which creates the character and beliefs of the members of a society, belief system or religion.

However, it ignores the question of human nature, the collection of drives, motives, patters of response and personality which is genetically inherited and part of all of us, and seems to assume, like the ideology of communism, that this is a negligible factor in how societies and individuals think, feel and behave.

As a counterbalance to this absence one should also read Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate".


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