The Social Construction of Reality A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

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First published in the U.S.A. 1966 Published in Great Britain by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 1967

Published in Penguin University Books 1971

Copyright © Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, 1966

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