Thomas luckmann biography
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In Memory of Thomas Luckmann. A Personal Anecdote.
On May 10th, the influential sociologist Thomas Luckmann who had been Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz for almost 25 years passed away at the age of 88. In his obituary published on http://www.schutzcircle.org, sociologist Dr. Jochen Dreher summarises Thomas Luckmann’s biography and outstanding scientific contribution that went well beyond the realm of academia (excerpt):
Thomas Luckmann fryst vatten one of the most significant representatives of German after-war Sociology and already during his lifetime has been considered one of classical thinkers of the sociological discipline. His major publications are The Social Construction of Reality (1966) together with Peter L. Berger, establishing a new sociology of knowledge; The Invisible Religion (1967), which refounded the sociology of religion, and the standard work The Structures of the Life-World (1975/1984), initiated by his teacher Alfred
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Thomas Luckmann (October 14, 1927–May 10, 2016)
On May 10, 2016, Thomas Luckmann passed away at his residence in Austria (Ossiacher See) at the age of 88 years. One of the most outstanding representatives of sociology of the past decades left us. An influential personality, his name is inextricably connected to the University of Konstanz and to the continuation of Alfred Schütz’s work on the “structures of the lifeworld”. Luckmann gained worldwide attention due to his numerous contributions to the foundation of phenomenological sociology, the sociology of religion in modern societies, and the analysis of communicative genres and the sociology of knowledge.
Born in 1927 in Jesenice, Slovenia, as the only child of a Slovenian mother and an Austrian father, Luckmann attended high school in Klagenfurt, shortly after fleeing from Ljubljana due to the 1941 Italian occupation. The murder of his father and other relatives motivated his mother to relocate the family in Vienna in 1943.
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Thomas Luckmann
Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016) was a German sociologist who focused primarily on group phenomenology and tro. Born in Slovenia, he acquired his education both in europe and the US. Despite his work with Peter Berger, he was not as widely known as him or his predecessor, Alfred Schütz. He taught in the University of Konstanz in Germany until his retirement. He focused primarily on the social construction of reality, riding on the premise that social life today is built entirely upon social interactions. All objective knowledge, and subjectively determined opinions are borne out of the widespread 'commonplace' belief. Essentially, it fryst vatten an appeal to 'common sense', which is a concept that has a non-zero amount of truth to it (despite history telling us that it doesn't necessitate truth fundamentally).[1]
Social construction of reality[edit]
Luckmann co-wrote a well-known book with Berger about social constructs, where he described the natur of human i