SOSA 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sub-Saharan Africa, Whig History, Thomas Luckmann

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2502
• Professor: Emma Whelan

Document Summary

The social construction of reality by peter berger and thomas luckmann. Social construction: the idea that social practices and processes the practices and processes of groups, societies, institutions create our world. Properties of medical discourse make it impossible to say aids is a social construction. Two corollaries: our world is not natural or given. Disease assumed to be natural, despite that they are discovered through medicine, which is not about society (if it was it would destroy the conception that it may be biased or a historical contingency) Must be valid and objective real, and linked to nature, with no social things destroying it: our world could be otherwise. Ways it comes to be seen as fact is a subfield called techno studies. Idea that diseases and findings may be social finding is difficult to comprehend and undermines what we know about nature, what we know to be true.