Very good point!  As Berger and Luckman point out in "The Social
Construction of Reality"

"It is a world that originates in their thoughts and is maintained as real
by these."

"The most general answer to this question is that social order is a human
product. Or, more precisely, an ongoing human production. It is produced by
man in the course of his ongoing externalization. Social order is not
biologically given or derived from any biological data in its empirical
manifestations. Social order, needless to add, is also not given in man's
natural environment, though particular features of this may be factors in
determining certain features of a social order (for example, its economic
or technological arrangements). Social order is not part of the "nature of
things," and it cannot be derived from the "laws of nature." Social order
exists only as a product of human activity. No other ontological status may
be ascribed to it without hopelessly obfuscating its empirical
manifestations. Both in its genesis (social order is the result of past
human activity) and its existence in any instant of time (social order
exists only and insofar as human activity continues to produce it) it is a
human product."

dr

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