SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Social Construction Of Reality, Thomas Luckmann, Individualism
23 Nov 2017
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Reading 1 the sociological perspective anderson. A core sociological concept: the social construction of reality. One core concept that makes up the sociological perspective is the; social construction of reality. Among the work funded in the second half of the last century by the american government, was a research on frog vision. It turns out there is a lot of difference between what a frog sees and what a human sees . A frog can visually distinguish: light from dark, up from down (i. e. a horizon, small, dark objects that move, larger objects that cast shadows. Unlike humans, a frog does not see the details of the stationary world around it it will starve to death if surrounded by flies if the flies don"t move. A frog can remember something that moves only if the object stays within his line of vision and he is not distracted.
