Social construction

Social construction is the thesis that meaningful features of the world — categories, institutions, facts, and even individual identities — are not discovered as pre-given natural realities but produced, maintained, and transformed through collective human activity. What appears as objective is often the sedimented residue of repeated social practices that have become so habitual they are no longer perceived as contingent. The social constructionist turn, most forcefully articulated by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann in The Social Construction of Reality (1966), asks not what