![]() ![]() Language was regarded not as a problem but as a solution to the problem. This idea replaced the problem of understanding subjective meaning in Max Weber’s interpretative sociology with linguistic meaning. In contrast, sociological theories represented by Luckmann’s sociology of knowledge conceived language to be the “social a priori” that is intersubjectively shared among people. ![]() Since the mid-1960s, a field called “sociology of language” has emerged as an attempt to focus on linguistic heterogeneity in society and deal with social problems such as discrimination and disparity in terms of language. ![]() The aim of this article is to clarify the position of language in sociological theory, analyzing the discourses of a sociological phenomenologist of the so-called “meaning school,” notably Thomas Luckmann. ![]()
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