ABSTRACT
Dreher argues that it makes sense to deal with Bourdieu’s critical reflections concerning an alleged “oblivion of power” in Berger’s and Luckmann’s major work. Therefore, he specifically highlights the particular potential for an analysis of power offered by Berger’s and Luckmann’s social constructivism. Dreher aims to demonstrate that the theoretical outline developed in The Social Construction of Reality presents a suitable conceptual framework for establishing a theory of power. After discussing Bourdieu’s critique, he applies Berger’s and Luckmann’s theoretical framework to a discussion of the concept of power, and he complements these reflections with the concept of relevance introduced by Alfred Schütz and Thomas Luckmann for the analysis of subjective power constitution. The concept of relevance basically serves as a regulating principle for the construction of reality because it structures and organizes the interrelationship of objective knowledge and the subjective experience of the individual actor. Therefore, it perfectly facilitates an explanation of the processuality of power constitution, which cannot be achieved with the concept of habitus.
