Sociology › Section D · Society and social interaction › Topic D.3
The social construction of reality
Money, schools, borders and job titles are not facts of nature, yet they shape your life as firmly as gravity. Sociologists explain how people create such realities through repeated interaction, and how the positions and roles we occupy are built in the same way.
In this topic
- Is a $20 bill real?
- Berger and Luckmann
- Money in crisis
- The Thomas theorem
- Self-fulfilling prophecies
- Worked example: an empty shelf
- Status: the positions we occupy
- Roles: role sets, strain and conflict
- Worked example: a student athlete's week
- Performing roles
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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