To Berger and Luckmann, this formulation tended to run into the problem of figuring out where in the world any of the social "realities" we see and live with everyday come from. This was the basic question asked in the text, "where do these "realities" come from, or how do humans create these realities socially - with particular emphasis on the role of knowledge"? .
I personally believe that socially constructed reality is the biggest influence on what we perceive as reality and how we perceive it, especially in the world as we know it today. When we are born, we lack of knowledge. We know very basic things, such as how to eat, drink, and sleep. Other than that, humans have to be reared, or raised, and we do this from our vision and hearing. We see the environment and learn the differences between what is right and wrong. We can perceive images that go on around us like no other specie can. As a result of this ability to see, we become the perfect creatures to learn and develop ourselves around our environment. .
Reality then is not something that exists outside of the individual that can be accurately represented by a set of concepts regarded to reflect it. Furthermore, our assumptions about the world becomes self-fulfilling when connected with the exercise of power. What we see is heavily dependent on the theoretical framework we use to make the observations in the first place. It is particularly important to separate observations from assumptions.
The model represented by Berger and Luckmann depicts reality as a social phenomenon. The external actions of individuals become transformed into society as an objective reality that then may be internalized as moral norms and prescriptions, or otherwise known as individuals as a social product. Therefore, this means that reality is not fixed, but rather it is open to constant reinterpretation. The outcome of this social construction of reality is dependent on structures of inequality and relations of power.
