- Thomas Luckmann
Thomas Luckmann (born
October 14 1927 ) is a German sociologist of Slovene origin. His main areas of research are the sociology of communication,Sociology of knowledge ,sociology of religion , and thephilosophy of science .Biography
He was born as Tomaž Luckmann in the
Slovenia n industrial border town ofJesenice , then part of theKingdom of Yugoslavia . His father was anAustria n industrialist, while his mother was from a Slovene family fromLjubljana . On his mother side, he was the cousin of the Slovene poetBožo Vodušek . He grew up in a bilingual environment. In the family, they spoke both Slovene and German, and he attended Slovene-language schools in Jesenice until 1941, and then German ones. AfterWorld War Two , the family emigrated to Austria. Luckmann studied sociology at theUniversity of Vienna and Innsbruck. He later moved to the United States, where he studied at theNew School for Social Research inNew York .He has worked as a professor for
Sociology at theUniversity of Constance inGermany . Since 1994 he is professor emeritus. He is married and has a daughter.Work
Luckmann is a follower of the phenomenological school of
sociology , established by the German-American scholarAlfred Schütz . In his works, he has developed a theory, known associal constructionism , which argues that all knowledge, including the most basic common sense knowledge of everyday reality, is derived from and maintained by social interactions. Luckmann is probably best known for the books "The Social Construction of Reality ", written together withPeter L. Berger in 1966, and "Structures of the Life-World", which he wrote withAlfred Schütz in 1982.Luckmann is a member of the
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Linköping and Ljubljana.Essential bibliography
*"
The Social Construction of Reality " (1966, withPeter L. Berger )
*"The Invisible Religion " (1967)
*"The Sociology of Language (1975)
*"Structures of the Life-World " (1982, withAlfred Schütz )
*"Life-World and Social Realities " (1983)Sources
*
Frane Adam , "Tomaž Luckmann" in Thomas Luckmann, "Družba, komunikacija, smisel, transcendenca" (Ljubljana: Študentska založba, 2007)
*Patricija Maličev, "Thomas Luckmann. Človek s posebnostmi" in "Delo ", "Sobotna priloga" (April 12, 2008), 25-27See also
*
Jože Pučnik External links
* [http://hirr.hartsem.edu/ency/luckmann.htm Encyclopedia of Religion and Society: Thomas Luckmann]
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