Thomas Luckmann

The social construction of reality is a continuous process of negotiation and re-negotiation.

The human world is a world of symbols and meanings.

The 'natural attitude' is the taken-for-granted assumption of the reality of everyday life.

The social world is a world of shared understandings.

The individual's experience of reality is always mediated by language.

The 'sacred' is not necessarily supernatural but can be found in various forms of human experience.

The human being is a meaning-making creature.

The social construction of reality is a powerful and pervasive force in human life.

The world of everyday life is a world of practical action and interaction.

The individual's subjective reality is constantly being shaped and reshaped by social forces.

The 'invisible religion' is a testament to the enduring human need for ultimate meaning.

Reality does not simply exist; it is constructed through social processes.

The social construction of reality is a dialectical process between objective and subjective factors.

Institutions are sedimentations of typified habitualizations.

Everyday life is the paramount reality for the individual.

Knowledge is socially distributed.

Religion is the human enterprise by which a sacred cosmos is established.

The invisible religion of modern man is a privatized faith.

Modernity fragments the religious tradition into personal belief systems.

Social reality is maintained through conversation and typification.