Thomas Luckmann

The past few years were filled with indicators that the is beginning to become established not only as a field of study and investigation, but also as an academic area of studies.

— Thomas Luckmann

The shrinking of church religion, however, is only one – and the sociologically less interesting – dimension of the problem of secularization. For the analysis of contemporary society another question is more important. What are the dominant values overarching contemporary culture? What is the socio-structural basis of these values and what is their function in the live of contemporary man?

— Thomas Luckmann

The organism—in isolation nothing but a separate pole of "meaningless" subjective processes—becomes a Self by embarking with others upon the construction of an "objective" and moral universe of meaning. Thereby the organization transcends its biological nature.

— Thomas Luckmann