Peter L. Berger - The Social Construction of Reality (1966)

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The sociology of knowledge is concerned with the analysis of the social construction of reality.

Peter L. Berger

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

Peter L. Berger

The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (...) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.

Peter L. Berger

On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.

Peter L. Berger

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

Peter L. Berger