Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann Phenomenology Wrote The Social Construction of Reality. Were students of Alfred Schutz.

Argued that learning is a three part process: Externalization: acting on the world and/or putting something out into the world that could be reacted to. Objectification: assigning a meaning to the act. Internalization: bringing the meaning into ones Stock of Knowledge. Stock of Knowledge: In short, all the stuff we know. Arranged in a very special way. Has to be structured in such a way that stored information can be retreived. As it is taken in knowledge is classified and typified so that it will come forth later, at the right time when it is needed. Zones of Relevance: Stocks of Knowledge structured to meet the needs of the moment. Graphic equalizer of knowledge. The three parts of the learning process are all constantly in motion changing the stocks of knowledge and the zones of relevance from second to second. This process is the self for Berger and Luckman. Society is a multitude of selves doing this. Duree: Uninterrupted stream of consciousness. In order to talk, Schutz argues, we must stop the flow to look back on what we have thought inorder to form what we will say. Do you agree? Draw Here: