Sumblog 10

Peter Berger is a part of a select few sociologies that look at society as current and constantly evolving entity. He wanted to know why some parts of society are just seen as a normal part of life, and how they became normal. I see him and a common 4 year old getting into an awesome “why” competition. Berger himself was wondering why? He looked at these social norms as four step processes to understanding and creates society, these norms we create are in terms of organization or the social construction of reality. Here, Berger expressed that everything that is created is only created because we created it. In other words everything that has been made had to be thought by man, created by man, named by man, and the way we use objects is created by man, it is simply everything we have created this world. In a drastic sense we can change blue into green just by getting enough people to agree and no one challenging the new names given. The next aspect is externalization, or how we create ideas and then persuade other people into believing and endorsing your ideas. You alone can come up with some radical ideas; however the idea is only your own crazy thought until you externalize your ideas onto another. They then are convinced and share your original idea and will express it onto others. How do we know that green is green, because some person said so and everyone else agreed. In the agreement process Berger was curious on how objects and perceptions become and stay how they are. We habituate to them, and see them as normal, knowing that they have been repetitively used in a particular way or another without breaking any social norm. The last concept is the fact that we become institutionalized to these normally habituated activates. We become comfortable in our lives and we are content without changes. This is a normal way of looking at life, an organized set of goals and ideas that a larger group put in order to control crisis. We see all the luxuries that are around us and we see it as normal. We no longer know how to live outside our normal institutionalized world.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQqVQol7wcQ

This is a simple example of someone breaking social norms and not really knowing what to do, The stress of not following norms just make her do irrational actions, there is no organized thinking.