SOC 2191 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Thomas Luckmann, Human Eye, Edmund Husserl

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2191
• Professor: Peter Beyer

Document Summary

Religion and the social construction of the world: peter berger"s theory. Relation between knowing something and doing it: epistemology and performance, observation and performance. K(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g is o(cid:271)se(cid:396)(cid:448)atio(cid:374) (cid:894)e. g. oh the(cid:396)e is a(cid:374) e(cid:373)pt(cid:455) (cid:272)hai(cid:396), i(cid:859)ll take that o(cid:374)e(cid:895: do (cid:858)as if(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g e(cid:454)ists(cid:895) Aspects of the world that are foreign or strange to someone. Fo(cid:396) so(cid:373)e people i(cid:374) ou(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld it is a(cid:374) (cid:858)as if(cid:859) that they have to figure out, and same for us if we go into their world. We live in a world now where the true other is gone, people who live truly different lives are scarce. Theory: durkheimian and phenomenological (husserl & sch tz) Key writings of the 1960s: with thomas luckmann, in 1966: the social construction of reality. A society can be without religion (unlike durkheim: berger said that a society can be without religion but that it would be a problem, durkheim would say that a society can be without religion.