CRM 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Luckmann, Moral Panic, Social Constructionism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2302
• Professor: Christine Grevias

Document Summary

Social constructionism - building from the interactional school & berger & luckman: processing social problems. 2 fundamental forms of identification: categoric where we place the other (group, social category, hierarchy) Individual loaded into a uniquely distinguishing identity. Peter l. berger & thomas luckmann (1966) the social construction of reality (cid:858) o(cid:272)iet(cid:455) is a hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) produ(cid:272)t. o(cid:272)iet(cid:455) is a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e realit(cid:455). Ma(cid:374) is a so(cid:272)ial produ(cid:272)t(cid:859: society is actively and creatively produced by human beings. (cid:862)realit(cid:455) is so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) defi(cid:374)ed, (cid:271)ut this realit(cid:455) refers to the su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e of e(cid:448)er(cid:455) da(cid:455) life, how the world is understood rather than to the objective reality of the natural world (andrews. Most of what is known and most of the knowing that is done is concerned with trying to make sense of what it is to be human, as opposed to scientific knowledge (steadman 2000) Individuals & groups define this reality: causation is not a question.