Perceptual Construction: RereadingThe Social Construction of RealityThrough the Sociology of the Senses
| Autor: | Asia Friedman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Cultural Studies
Dialectic 050402 sociology Externalization media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Socialization General Social Sciences 050801 communication & media studies Cognition Social constructionism Epistemology 0508 media and communications 0504 sociology Perception Conversation Sociology Mechanism (sociology) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Cultural Sociology. 10:77-92 |
| ISSN: | 1749-9763 1749-9755 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1749975515615149 |
| Popis: | In this paper, I bring Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality into conversation with the relatively new subfield of the sociology of the senses to argue that greater attentiveness to sensory perception can enhance our understanding of the mechanisms of the social construction of reality. When read with this sensitization, one finds implicit references to the senses throughout their discussion, but nowhere is sensory perception explicitly theorized as a part of the social construction process. Drawing specifically on their analysis of primary socialization, face-to-face interaction, language and relevance structures, and the fundamental dialectic of externalization, objectivation, and internalization, I demonstrate that processes of perceptual construction – specifically sensory attention and disattention – are key mechanism of social construction underlying many of Berger and Luckmann’s arguments. A more explicit focus on sensory perception not only clarifies and strengthens many of their observations, but also constitutes a renewal of their important call to examine the processes of social construction. |
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