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Reality construction, Communication and daily life - An approach to Thomas Lukmann work

Abstract

The article offers a synthesis of Thomas Luckmann proposal about Communication and interaction in daily life. In this argumentative text, based on a methodology of theoretical revision, are identified and explained some of the fundamental elements of Luckmann work. The objectives of the work are: to expose theoretical and epistemological bases of the author; to explore some of the main concepts presented in the book Social Construction of Reality, such as interaction, intersubjectivity and symbolic universe; and to explain a less well-known theory of the author, the theory of the communicative genres that allows understanding the pragmatic vision of Luckmann around Communication in daily life. Luckmann puts the subject in the center of his proposal, and conceives it, before any other thing, like an individual in permanent bond and interaction with its resemblances; from these situations of interaction, the subjects construct the society and, simultaneously, they are constructed by it. The theory of the communicative genres can be compared to a sociology of Communication in daily life.

Keywords:
Thomas Luckmann; Interaction; Communication; Daily life; Knowledge

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