“The basic contentions of the argument of this book are implicit in its title and sub-title, namely, that reality is socially constructed and that the sociology of knowledge must analyse the process in which this occurs.”

—  Peter L. Berger , book The Social Construction of Reality

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 1 (1999; 13)

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