Person

Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann

Sociologists of the social construction of reality—how institutions sediment everyday knowledge into taken-for-granted worlds.

Why this matters

Berger and Luckmann are foundational for how meaning becomes infrastructure—and why interpretation can stop mattering once routines harden.

Works

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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. *The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge*. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966.

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