Karl Weick described the process through which we shape and structure our realities as a process of enactment. Like Garfinkel's concept of accomplishment, Weick's concept stresses the proactive role that we unconsciously play in creating our world. Although we often see ourselves as living in a reality with objective characteristics, life actually demands much more of us. It requires that we take an active role in bringing our realities into being through various interpretive schemes, even though these realities may then have a habit of imposing themselves on us as the way things are