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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Berger, Peter L., and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
Why this matters here
Berger and Luckmann describe how practiced knowledge hardens into taken-for-granted reality. How Serious Systems Learn treats that hardening as myth in a precise sense: a once-useful method becomes insulated from the conditions that made it truthful.
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