We do not see the symbolic significance of our social ideas because we take them for granted. They are a kind of glass through which we see the universe and which we don’t even notice until it is broken by some social disruption. Even when that happens, we tend to react by punishing the disrupting person, instead of paying attention to the fact that there is a glass wall around ourselves … We think ourselves rational, masters of our own destinies; in fact our rationality itself is given to us by the social structure we inhabit, a structure that forms us to think in one particular way rather than another. - Randall Collins