In the final reading, you’ll find a sample from one of the most influential theories of how the reality of social orders comes into being. In The Social Construction of Reality, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann ask how an objective social order-a shared sense of factual reality-can emerge from the convergence of the minds, bodies, and interactions of individuals. Laying out a scheme that includes brilliant insights on human consciousness, habit, institutionalization, and the multiplicity of social realities, Berger and Luckmann give us a compelling way to understand how society actually becomes the objective reality of our everyday experience.