Thomas Luckmann
Collaborated with Peter L. Berger on 'The Social Construction of Reality' and contributed significantly to the sociology of knowledge and religion.
Quotes by Thomas Luckmann
Meaning is not inherent but attributed.
The self reflects society back to itself.
Institutions guide conduct without direct coercion.
The invisible religion fills the void left by traditional faith.
Knowledge is a segment of the socially approved universe.
Intersubjectivity is achieved through shared typifications.
Modernity privatizes the sacred.
The social world is a web of reciprocal expectations.
Reality maintenance requires ongoing legitimation.
Personal faith becomes the core of invisible religion.
The life-world resists total institutionalization.
Sociology reveals the taken-for-granted foundations of society.
Identity is a dialectic between self and society.
Secularization transforms rather than eliminates the religious.
Conversation is the medium of social reality.
The paramount reality brackets other realities.
Modern man seeks meaning in therapeutic terms.
Social structures are products of human activity.
The self is dialogically constituted.
Religion's future lies in its subjective expressions.