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Thomas Luckmann
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Thomas Luckmann was a German sociologist of Slovenian origin best known as the co-author, with Peter L. Berger, of The Social Construction of Reality (1966), a foundational text of social constructionism that traced how everyday reality is built up and maintained through habitualized human activity and institutionalization. Trained in the phenomenological tradition of Alfred Schutz, Luckmann brought a rigorous phenomenological method to sociology, and his own later work in the sociology of religion, including the concept of invisible religion, examined how meaning-making and transcendence persist in secularized modern societies outside traditional religious institutions.
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BirthplaceJesenice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionContributions central to the sociology of communication, sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion and the philosophy of science; co-authored The Social Construction of Reality with Peter L. Berger. 1 Notable WorkThe Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Luckmann phenomenological sociology of knowledge, developed with Peter Berger, drew directly on Schutz philosophy of the everyday social world.
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1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Luckmann (October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an Austro-Slovene sociologist who taught mainly in Germany.
1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Luckmann (October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an Austro-Slovene sociologist who taught mainly in Germany.
1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Luckmann (October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an Austro-Slovene sociologist who taught mainly in Germany.
1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Luckmann (October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an Austro-Slovene sociologist who taught mainly in Germany.
1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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Thomas Luckmann (October 14, 1927 – May 10, 2016) was an Austro-Slovene sociologist who taught mainly in Germany.
1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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His contributions were central to studies in sociology of communication, sociology of knowledge, sociology of religion, and the philosophy of science.
1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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His best-known titles are the 1966 book, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (co-authored with Peter L. Berger), The Invisible Religion (1967), and The Structures of the Life-World (1973) (co-authored with Alfred Schütz)
1. Thomas Luckmann (Wikipedia)
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Born in Jesenice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Luckmann studied philosophy and linguistics at the University of Vienna and the University of Innsbruck.
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