Peter BergerThinkers

Institutionalization is historicized habits, or norms that govern relations in a group.

Institutionalization is the process whereby newcomers to a group (such as children or others) experience historicized habits over time as natural rules such that 'reciprocal typification of habitualized action by types of actors' leads to the eventual objectification of that habitualized action as an institution.

The Past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Reality is that in things which we cannot wish away.

Religion is an institution that arose out of a need for social order.

Social construction is a way to describe how the typifications of actors interacting becomes institutionalized.

Social construction is the idea that persons or groups, over time, create concepts or mental representations of each others actions, which become roles and norms norms. Social construction refers to when these roles become institutionalized.

Social constructivism is the notion that the world is socially constructed (subjective ontology), and it can be measured and analyzed (objective epistemology)'.

The Sociology of knowledge is the study of how people form shared mental conceptions about the world. It is the study of how groups (be it sailors, first-year medical students, or commodities traders on wall street) construct the unique rules, jokes, habits, and practices that govern their relations.

The Sociology of knowledge is whatever passes for knowledge in a society, regardless of the ultimate validity or invalidity (by whatever criteria) of such 'knowledge'.