Phenomenology is a newer theory that is still rejected by many in the field of sociology. Phenomenological sociologists study how people define their social situations once they have learned cultural notions. The idea behind this theory is that everyday reality is a set of socially constructed ideas that have accumulated over time and are often taken for granted by group members. The history of phenomenological sociology is the work of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl, in which he describes this theory as an interest in things that can be perceived by the senses; therefore, “we can never know more about things than what we directly experience through our senses” (Wallace & Wolf 2008:263). Under phenomenology sociology is the analysis of Peter Berger's construction of social reality. He argues that reality is socially constructed and then proceeds to examine the basis on which knowledge of reality is structured. He explains that reality is about acknowledging the structured, almost modular aspect of everyday experiences, even if the immediacy of the experience has the effect of allowing individuals to take it for granted. Berger argues that one way to call attention to the taken-for-granted features of everyday life experience is to abstract from problems or activities that interrupt the smooth flow of experience. This reality is both subjective and objective. By subjective Berger means that reality has a personal meaning for an individual and by objective he means the social order, or the institutional world created by individuals. An example of this in the movie Taking Chance, the reality is that joining the military and going to war sometimes brings with it death, which is objective, with... middle of paper..." Because his two realities differ within him causing conflict with his self-esteem. Berger's theory of social construction of reality defines socialization as the internalization of the values ​​and norms of society exist and are not intended to be coercive; understood to exist. They exist as external reality; therefore the individual must know them. Interaction thus becomes predictable in taken-for-granted routines, providing stability in everyday life the human activity that produced them. Man and the social world are in constant interaction. Works Cited Wallace, Ruth A. and Alison Wolf. Contemporary sociological theory: expansion of the classical tradition. New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.