Viktor

“The typifications of social interaction become progressively anonymous the farther away they are from the face-to-face situation. Every typification, of course, entails incipient anonymity. If I typify my friend Henry as a member of category X (say, as an Englishman), I ipso facto interpret at least certain aspects of his conduct as resulting from this typification—for instance, his tastes in food are typical of Englishmen, as are his manners, certain of his emotional reactions, and so on. This implies, though, that these characteristics and actions of my friend Henry appertain to anyone in the category of Englishman, that is, I apprehend these aspects of his being in anonymous terms. Nevertheless, as long as my friend Henry is available in the plenitude of expressivity of the face-to-face situation, he will constantly break through my type of anonymous Englishman and manifest himself as a unique and therefore atypical individual—to wit, as my friend Henry.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

“sociology of knowledge is concerned with the relationship between human thought and the social context within which it arises.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

“Whatever patterns are introduced will be continuously modified through the exceedingly variegated and subtle interchange of subjective meanings that goes on.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

“The social reality of everyday life is thus apprehended in a continuum of typifications, which are progressively anonymous as they are removed from the “here and now” of the face-to-face situation.”
― Peter L. Berger, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge