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example of how knowledge that at one time was specialist knowledge,
becomes ’sedimented’ into the world of knowledge of everyman.

Forms of theorizing may be classified as

(a) incipient
(bɔ rudimentary
Ce) explicit.

4.31ɑi) (a) Incipient theorizing - language

‘Theorizing’, as the concept is used here, occurs at various

levels. Berger and Luckmann C1966:110ff.) discuss the process of
legitimation as a form of theorizing.

Legitimation is best described as a ’second order'
Objectivation of meaning. Legitimation produces new
meanings that serve to integrate the meanings already
attached to disparate institutional processes. The
function of legitimation is to make objectively available
and subjectively plausible the first order Objectivations
that have been institutionalized. The lowest form of
legitimation is contained in, and transmitted through,
language.

Bergerand Luckmann ¢1966:122) call this incipient theorizing.

⅝.

C. Wright Mills ¢1972:441) refers to vocabularies of motives that
canalize thought.

4.31 Ci) Cb) Rudimentary forms of theorizing

Rudimentary forms of theorizing, according to Berger and
Luckmann (1966:122), "are highly pragmatic explanatory schemes
relating to concrete actions’’.

Such rudimentary forms of theorizing may be found in every day
statements of belief, of ’recipe' knowledge CSchutz, 1971:72££.).

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