Practice question · Multiple choice
Berger and Luckmann claim that society produces humanity just as humans produce society. What does this dialectic imply for how we view individual agency alongside socialisation?
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- If humans produce society, can social structures ever be entirely closed?
- What prevents socialisation from operating as an absolute stamping machine?
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B. Socialisation remains an incomplete process that allows for innovation
Why
Treating socialisation as a total stamp ignores that society is continuously remade by human action; individual deviance and innovation persist because actors are not passive products of structural determinism.
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