THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY AT 50

Thursday October 30th, 2014

New School for Social Research
Wolff Conference Room, 1103D

6 East 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

 

4pm. Panel

Presenters:

Eviatar Zerubavel (Rutgers University), “The Five Pillars of Essentialism: Reification and the Social Construction of Objective Reality.”

Alan Sica (Penn State), “Social Construction as Fantasy.”

Asia Friedman (University of Delaware), “Perceptual Construction: Rereading The Social Constructi​on of Reality through the Sociology of the Senses.”

Steve Hoffman (SUNY-Buffalo), “The Practical Uses of Less Reality: Taking Berger and Luckmann into the Wild.”

Silke Steets‏ (Technische Universitat Darmstadt), “Taking Berger and Luckmann Elsewhere: Architecture as a Social Construction.”
Moderator: Hector Vera (UNAM)

6pm. Video communication by THOMAS LUCKMANN

 

6:20. Lecture by PETER BERGER*

* Due to health reasons, Peter Berger’s presentation will be via skype.

7:45 Reception

 

 

Information:

hhvera@hotmail.com

levendod@newschool.edu