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Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Danger of Disengagement

The idea of a meaningful life is to figure out based on the socially inherited matrix where you fit into it and be okay with that. I do think he's pulling us straight from Durkheim, says Peter Burger. We can't just disengage from it. Even if we're resisting, we have to be engaged with and understand the norms.

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