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On Social Interaction and the Communicative Construction of Personal Identity, Knowledge and Reality

Thomas Luckmann

Kirchstraße 15, CH-8274 Gottlieben, Austria

After a note on the main assumption of all science — the existence of a world — the implications of this ontological realism are pointed out. The subject of the social sciences is a human world — no doubt an evolutionary emergent one — that is built up, modified and sometimes partly destroyed by human social interaction over the generations. The constitution of meaning in experience and action is described (with a lengthy footnote on the phenomenological details of the matter) as the foundation of social, and most importantly, communicative interaction. This provides the basis for a formal analysis of the communicative formation and transmission of personal identity, knowledge and historical social words.

Key Words: ontological realism • experience • action • communicative interaction • personal identity • knowledge • transmission of knowledge

Organization Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, 277-290 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0170840607087260
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