Whose here because of a uni class? If you are best of luck!

Excellent articulation of the basic ideas of Berger and Luckman. Human beings create social reality.

I didn't realize that as more things become more dependent on us they existence they become more meaningfully to us... that's really true

I got an A on my exam about The Social Construction of Reality. I love this theory so much, and it makes so much sense. I know it is hard to learn, it was for me too, but once you do...! Wow, it'll blow your mind

Thank you very much! This is just an amazing and most comprehensive lecture about the Social Construction. I have read lot of stuff about it but this lecture is the best.

Understandable lecture, this really helps me understand the theory more.

Excellent, Very well explained, and the appropriate examples made the learning easier. Thank you very much.

I really enjoyed this lecture! Thank you for posting it.

I just had the difference explained to me by a lecturer at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia - Social constructionism and social constructivism are similar terms, but the former originates in sociology and the latter in psychology. Both refer to the theory that our world is socially constructed rather than objective. The psych term, when used properly refers to the cognitive processes involved in the social construction of our understanding and experience of the world. Given the similarity of meanings, the terms are often used interchangeably. Strictly speaking, students of sociology should stick to using the term social constructionism.

thank you for this lecture, i read the original book twice. Still, i don't understand the idea of the book clearly, in particular, the process "externalization, institutionalization, internalization" until I watched this Video. thank you sir. good day to everyone.

This is absolutely fascinating, I feel like I need to watch it 3 more times to fully understand it though.

Does anyone know where I can get the source of the table regarding the different types of realities (objective/subjective, dependent/independent)? I'd like to refer to it in my essay but could not find its origin. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this wonderful presentation!

Excellent overview of this some what complex theory. The final question for me to resolve, is what the difference is between the construction -ism and -vism? And to what extend moderate constructions are the be understood as the same as sosial construtions? Øyvind Pedersen, University of Tromsø, Norway

A very calm and confident presentation.

Thank you for this amazing summary of Social Constructionism. I am happily constructing great value to this video and to the research process it has begun for me!🙏

Philosophy for kindergarten, and I have to take exam in it😢😢😢😢

Thank you ........ You helped me enormously to write a comprehensive presentation on Social Construction. Bless you

The start premise was brilliant, for me lost in a side track of example. for me the exploration of a premise into the construct of reality to the the way we measure it, is its own consciousness. beyond that is time itself, connected, we are a multidimensional paradox

Absolutely on point - because of you I finally unterstood the whole theory.

Brilliant. Thank you for sharing.

words that kill

99% of comments don't know what social constructionism is and need to read husserl or schutz.

Okay. I understand political debate as arguing about what is social constructed and what is a natural kind. It is often about things like market, race and gender as something that is given as a fact (natural reality) or depending on human culture and therefore can be re- and deconstructed.

this was the explanation I needed...

Thanks for information

8:41 ''We carry culture around in our heads, we let culture define who we are.' And so, reality is socially constructed.''

Thank you for this concise and inspiring lecture! I enjoyed listening to your powerful John Malkovich speaking voice.

He is an excellent teacher. Can't the Great Courses invite him to offer an college-level audio and/or video course, titled, "Social Science and Christianity," or better yet, "Religion and Sociology"?

Thank you ❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

What a wonderful lecture!

"reality can be deconstructed and reconstructed"..is basically the same as "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" from 1984...

thanks for the video

This is very informative "Thank you"

Was that a ripoff of the TedEd intro?

I know that the phrase "social construction" has been around since the early 1900s and has become increasingly used by a variety of people to mean a variety of things. I think that to be more sociologically precise, we may want to adapt "mutually constructed social reality" to capture the truest essence of what we mean.

is this what is exactly mentionned in Berger & Lckmann 's book or there are some additions ?

how is reality socially constructed?

i didnt understand the internalization

Is the law of non-contradiction or photons social constructs?

Divine Command has been questioned since Plato. Religions are not beyond questioning of Divine Command thus their diversity. Nature and our many views of it presuppose a diversity of popular and scientific thinking. The constructivist view tends to take the old Nature/Nurture controversy with bias toward the nurture side. Sometimes, as is well the case here, humans are viewed as entirely socially constructed. To me this gives to much credit to nurture and obscures human predispositions and instincts. Furthermore, the constructivist's view of our social institutions as arbitrary brings into question their own beliefs as no less arbitrary and fanciful leaving them no where to hang their hat be it nature or nurture.

here cos my lecurerer got me in my feelings kmt.

What is he saying at 9:35? "In other words the human main lane made world is explained in terms that deny its human production." What does that mean?

John Malkovich is so talented! 👏

very pertinent to today's situation where everyone is ignoring an immune damage vascular disease that never went anywhere, but people wanted brunch

What a rousing finale-- his last words defended religion while the rest of the lecture completely undermined it-- LOL

FASCINATING

The view out of nowhere

Who is here only because he is having an exam in which this question is appearing??

phenomenology sounds like!

Excellent!!!

To be or not to be...

It mean stats

Why is he so nervous?

Reality is not "socially" constructed. Reality is beyond what you believe. How can you believe what is real if what you believe is NOT in alignment with your own reality?

I thought Providence was a Christian University..

No way I created my own reality and I never trust what people tell me or what I read and question everything I see and want to know how it works why it is as it is and everything about it, I'm definitely treat tv and all media as entertainment even this video .....but I might agree with other people as well as disagree about certain things , I make my own reality I am me, with that said their is only one true reality we all live in 💯 ❤️🇨🇦🍀

His talk sounds a lot like a sermon to me...

I disagree with the statement "as things become more dependent on us they become more meaningful." The things in life which I find most meaningful exist naturally and independently, and therefore do not rely on the human agent for it's existence. For example: If I gaze at the stars and become imbued with an overwhelming sense of meaning, it is because there is a part of me which intuitively knows that the stars and myself are inseparable. This has nothing to do with a social construct or dependency. The meaning derived from nature is both inherent and universally shared.

How We Created Jesus ~

How does this not lead to moral relativism? If freedom and slavery are both social constructs, why should one prefer one over the other?

not, made nor made up, it accretes over time. that accretion is actually natural as it is built up by natural beings - humans. language games, do not create a "new reality." sociology is now built on frankfurt school critical theory, that is a social construct that they chose. we should be extremely suspicious of these language games.

The theory of "social construction" was also socially constructed correct? if something is or may not be objective truth simply because it was socially constructed (and is dependent on people for its own existence) wouldn't this in turn diminish the objective validity of social construction as a theory in the first place.

For further thought, see "Deconstructing ‘The Social Construction of Reality’": apologiabyhendrikvanderbreggen.blogspot.com/2016/12/deconstructing-social-construction-of.html

I don't believe in the "social construction" of anything, as I've always been one to ignore the social world in almost every capacity, nerd that I am, but this was still a nice, informative video.

The dualism of nature and social that is proposed here has zero theoretical foundation

Human brains, which are the source of consciousness, are social constructs?

Stronger than God said is did God say? doubt is stronger than conviction, just ask Decartes because it's so much easier. If by religion, communism and the functional equivalence of religion are included, then there maybe something to this, but if by religion you mean my religion but not yours then you're not doing sociology your doing zealot postulation posturing as scientific.

This should be taught in high school to everyone.

"the social world (...) is made up by people". "the physical world (...) is given to humans" Question: are humans a physical entity? Are our brains? Where's the "dependency" line between the physical and the social, exactly?

How did God show up in this lecture?

sexy voice. oO nice presentation. love it ahow

"Hammers would not exist without humans" so deep lol

“The sociological question is not what is real nor even how do we know what is real but how does anything come to be accepted as real.” - Dr. Dennis Hebert. Since I was not educated under the social construction reality, which based on this lecture would have us reject the scientific methodology of understanding the natural world, I question this methodology of understanding nature/reality. Sure you can create and indoctrinate followers into believing an interpretation of nature/reality but is it real? A scientific process or scientific method requires observations of nature and formulating and testing the hypothesis. What is this scientific methodology of understanding the natural world? 1. Observe something and ask questions about a natural phenomenon (scientific observation). 2. Make your hypothesis. 3. Make predictions about logical consequences of the hypothesis. 4. Test your predictions by controlled experiment, a natural experiment, an observational study or a field experiment. 5. Create your conclusion on the basis of data or information gathered in your experiment. As explained by this professor, the social construct methodology of understanding the natural world requires you deny there is an observable fixed natural world (Take for example the periodic table of elements. This is an accepted reality but not static we have added elements to this table but it does not negate scientific observation. Regardless of whether people are aware of the periodic table of elements, it does not change the reality that these elements exist. You can’t make up whatever reality you want. It does not matter if you convince large numbers of people to “believe” your vision of reality. We know the earth travels around the sun because of gravity. In the past, the majority of society believed the sun traveled around the earth. This was a social construct that was not scientific and proved to be incorrect. Popular belief does not equate to reality.) The problem with the social construct theory is that it promotes a pseudo reality. It constructs a definition of nature that is subjective which can be redefined as it suits the culture. This is the definition of a cult mentality and is not based in reality. The fact that human beings can be manipulated and can collectively hold false beliefs does not make this reality factual. What a shame that this pseudo reality is being taught in our schools of higher education. We are producing a generation(s) of students who have been indoctrinated into “creating” a cultish false reality. The fact that human beings have a history of cult inspired belief systems and ignorance of science is obvious. This is evidence that humans do not think critically, are easily manipulated on a mass level and are subject to a cult mentality.

Watch the Ken Gergen video on KZfaq for a better "objective construction" LOL

Matrix

What this guy has not balloted to is that sociology is also a socially constructed reality.

5:18- Well, skin colour is NOT continuum with respect to humans. Different races have different skin colours and race is not just about skin colour. It's about physical features. So you are wrong. Nobody IMPOSES the order of race. Human races are natural. Humans did not create race. Race has biological underpinnings as a race is a genetic cluster.

His ideas are also the social construct of his predefined reality.

I cannot find almost anything of interest in this talk. A salad of hyperbolic statements without much grounding, reaching nowhere and mysteriously insisting on god and religion. Or is this maybe a religious university?

Dude making all sorts of claims without giving reasons or definitions (many of which seem to be loose). Edit: the longer i listen the more presuppositions he throws out without explanation or justification.

It's all very good until he contradicts everything he just said by implying that god is not created by man.

This guy seems so moody and grumpy in this video.

So free will and virtue does not exist. Ok. Kill me.

This idea is no longer worth pondering.

One minute in and I disagree with 100 percent of this theory.

To believe this stuff, you also have to believe some other things such as the supremacy of the mental to the spiritual, that reality is essentially physical, that the activity of the brain generates consciousness, etc. This is essentally Marxist.

He sounds bored.

This, is a non starter philosophy. He's critiquing a socially constructed world taken as "real" , using a socially constructed language to tell us so. Why should i believe a "word" of anything he's saying? Language is a social construct right ? But this cat, wants me to take his words has "real" ? Massive own goal, methinks. G