Human Studies A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences

Founding Editor Gesa Lindemann, Carl von Ozzietzky-University of , George Psathas, Department of Sociology, Junichi Murata, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan Boston University, Boston MA 02215, USA Hisashi Nasu, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Herbert G. Reid, University of Kentucky, Editor-in-Chief Lexington, KY, USA Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, University of Oregon, Martin Endreß, FB-IV Department of Sociology, Eugene, OR, USA University of , D-54286 Trier, Germany Ilja Srubar, University of -Nuernberg, E-mail: [email protected] Germany Michael Staudigl, Vienna University, Vienna, Editor Austria Stefan Nicolae, FB-IV Department of Sociology, Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, , D-54286 Trier, Germany Tampa, FL, USA E-mail: [email protected] Chung-Chi Yu, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Book Review Editor Aims and Scope Geoffrey Pfeifer, Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Human Studies is an international quarterly MA 01689-2280, USA journal dedicated primarily to take forward and E-mail: [email protected] enlarge the dialogue between philosophy and the human sciences. Therefore the journal addresses theoretical and empirical topics as well as Associate Editors philosophical investigations in different areas Don Ihde, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA of the human sciences. Phenomenological Michael Lynch, Cornell University, USA perspectives and hermeneutical orientations, David M. Rasmussen, Boston College, USA broadly defined, are the primary focus and frame for published papers. The journal benefits from Honorary Board Member scholars working in a variety of fields and who seek a forum to address these issues, in order to Thomas Luckmann, University of Konstanz, bridge the gap between philosophical and other Germany modes of inquiry in the human sciences. Considering this as the main conceptual aim of Editorial Board Human Studies its wide-ranging interdisciplinary coverage includes contributions from sociology, Kevin A. Aho, Florida Gulf Coast University, philosophy, psychology, political science, FL, USA communication studies, social geography, Michael Barber, St. Louis University, MO, anthropology, history, and qualitative social USA research (especially ethnomethodology). Carlos Belvedere, University of Buenos Aires, A particular accent is set upon communication Argentina possibilities between these different perspectives. Tim Berard, Kent State University, OH, USA Thus, interdisciplinary approaches using Scott Churchill, University of Dallas, TX, USA phenomenology as starting point and reference in Fred R. Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame, trying to analyze and explain the social reality are IN, USA encouraged and welcome. Both established lines Fred Evans, Duquesne University Pittsburgh, of interpretation and contemporary questions can PA, USA be used either as basis or subject-matter. Hubert Knoblauch, Technical University Human Studies is the official journal of the , Germany Society for Phenomenology and the Human Kenneth Liberman, University of Oregon, Sciences (SPHS). Eugene, OR, USA Human Studies Volume 39 · Number 1 · Spring 2016

Special Issue on The Social Construction of Reality

INTRODUCTION Introduction M. Endreß · S. Nicolae 1

INTERVIEWS Structures of a Life-Work: A Reconstruction of the Oeuvre of Thomas Luckmann J. Dreher · A. Göttlich 7 What Makes People Tick? And What Makes a Society Tick? And is a Theory Useful for Understanding?: An Interview with Peter L. Berger S. Steets 31

THEORETICAL / PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS Playing Chamber Music at a Rock Festival? The Social Construction of Reality in US Sociology S. Steets 51 On The Social Construction of Reality: Reflections on a Missed Opportunity B. Barnes 73 Social Construction of Reality H. Collins 87 Social Constructivism in Science and Technology Studies M. Lynch 93 The Common Denominator: The Reception and Impact of Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality H. Knoblauch · R. Wilke 105 In-Between Spaces. Pluralism and Hybridity as Elements of a New Paradigm for Religion in the Modern Age M. Pfadenhauer 125 Social Constructionism as a Sociological Approach S. Segre 139 On the Very Idea of Social Construction: Deconstructing Searle’s and Hacking’s Critical Reflections M. Endreß 147

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