Book description
A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.
This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything that passes for knowledge in society'. It focuses particularly on that 'common-sense knowledge' which constitutes the reality of everyday life…
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I have always suspected that the bubble of customs and dogmas, traditions and institutions that wrapped around my life and claimed it for its own from my earliest days did so to hide some bigger truth under an avalanche of “received truths” that, for me anyway, rang flat and hollow. Brands and logos, ideologies and faiths, rules and consequences–they all seemed contrived in some way and not connected to a reality beyond society’s insistence on their reality.
When I read Berger and Luckman’s book many years ago, it made a deep impression that has remained tattooed on my psyche ever…
From Ben's list on western culture’s distortions of reality.
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