Humans as social being interact with two realities: a physical/temporal reality, composed of houses, streets, (…) children, co-workers, families, (…) and other tangible objects, and time; and an enacted, or constructed, reality, composed of the interpretive, meaning-making,(…) role-assuming activities which produce meaningfulness and order in human life. p. 61
Yvonna Lincoln in Paul, J. (2005). Introduction to the philosophies of research and criticism in education and the social sciences. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.