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An Ending and a Beginning
Tuesday, September 10, 2002

I met with Roman today for the first official meeting of the Chicago Lunchtime Agile Study Group. It was great. We both seem to share a common passion for reading and learning, and not just about specific technologies, but about the methodologies and philosophies that influence software development. It was a great meeting. I invited other ChAD members to attend next Tuesday. Even if it just stays Roman and I, I know I will learn a ton.

I finished The Social Construction of Reality on the train this afternoon. The final paragraph was excellent:

"Man is biologically predestined to construct and inhabit a world with others. This world becomes for him the dominant and definitive reality. Its limits are set by nature, but once constructed, this world acts back upon nature. In the dialectic between nature and the socially constructed world the human organism itself is transformed. In this same dialectic man produces reality and thereby produces himself."

I need to meditate on these ideas. They make so much sense in my head, but I have an incredibly hard time distilling them into explanations or discussions with other people.

Replies: 2 comments

hi
also reading a lot of material on social construction. whose book were you reading?
a cyberconversation might be useful for us both, perhaps?

Posted by bloglurker on 09/15/2002

I was reading The Social Construction of Reality, by Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman. Other than my graduate studies in Narrative Therapy, a theory of family therapy based on social constructionism, I haven't read any other books on the subject.

Can you recommend any?

Posted by Dave on 09/16/2002

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