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

This book will say that culture is reality and is created by our typifying the institutions and its agents that we have subjectively made into objective reality through reifying what we are socialized into believing through the facticity (thrownness) of our existential reality and we re-litigate our......more

Political thought since the Enlightenment has turned largely on an apparent opposition between society and the individual. From this has emerged a libertarian argument that society and social facts are actually meaningless notions. Philosophy has largely lost interest in the question with the advent......more

La sociología ha sido tradicionalmente discriminada de alguno círculos científicos por su polémica concepción de integrar a los seres humanos en bases de comportamiento general, es decir, estudiar a los grupos humanos como conjuntos coherentes y similares, donde la individualidad y excentricidad de......more

I found this to be a most excellent work -- in fact, I will be adding it to my 'favorites' because I liked it so much. I discovered this work through a YouTube philosophy channel that I frequent (video linked here: [URL not allowed] I was intrigued, especially after I realize......more

There is a myriad of sensory data hitting you all the time. Whether it be sounds, colors, feelings, emotions etc. Basically, things happen. And then you tag on either a word or an explanation. These words or explanations arise from the people around you. But it is more than just your words and expl......more