SOC232H5 Chapter Notes -Ipso Facto, Thomas Luckmann
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The social construction of reality- peter berger and thomas luckmann. Everyday life presents itself as a reality interpreted by men and subjectively meaningful to them as a coherent world. Phenomenological analysis of everyday life, or subjective experience of everyday life, refrains from any causal/ genetic hypotheses, and from assertions about ontological status of phenomena analyzed. Commonsense contains innumerable pre and quasi-scientific interpretations about everyday reality, which it takes for granted. Consciousness always intentional; always intends or is directed toward objects. Different objects present themselves to consciousness as constituents of different spheres of reality. My consciousness, then, is capable of moving through different spheres of reality: conscious of the world as consisting of multiple realities. Shock is to be understood as caused by shift in attentiveness that the transition entails. Tension of consciousness highest in everyday life (the latter imposes itself upon consciousness in the most urgent and intense manner) Forces me to be attentive to it in fullest way.
