ABSTRACT
The seminal book The Social Construction of Reality, written by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, is relevant in the context of recognizing it as one of the ten most influential books for sociologists in the 21st century. This chapter describes the trajectories of some publishing houses in the Spanish-speaking world to help understand the importance of the first Spanish version of Berger and Luckmann’s book. In the European sense, colleagues Valles and Baer did not mention Berger and Luckmann’s book as influential at all for the development of qualitative social research in Spain. Comparing such development in Spain with the analytical perspective proposed to understand the development of the social sciences in Latin America, it is possible to identify similarities and differences even in the Spanish-speaking world. The Spanish version of The Social Construction of Reality appeared just two years after the original version, published in English.
