Thomas Luckmann

Thomas Luckmann

Born in 1927 in Jesenice (Slovenia), studied in Vienna and Innsbruck before emigrating to the United States. In the New School for Social Research in New York was a pupil of Alfred Schütz and Karl Löwith, obtaining in 1953 a degree in philosophy and three years later a doctorate in sociology. In 1965 he was appointed professor at the University of Frankfurt and in 1970 became professor of sociology at the University of Konstanz, where he remained until his retirement in 1994 The wide field of research Luckmann have in common the idea of ​​the social construction reality, developed with Peter L. Berger. Among his works include The Invisible Religion (1967, 1991) theory of social action (1992) and, with the same Berger, Modernity, pluralism and crisis of meaning (1995).