Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity: An Unvarnished Overview
Robert Bickel, "Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity: An Unvarnished Overview "
English | ISBN: 0367208164 | 2019 | 202 pages | EPUB | 560 KB
English | ISBN: 0367208164 | 2019 | 202 pages | EPUB | 560 KB
With particular attention to his work on modernization and modernity as construed by a sociologist of knowledge, this book offers a sympathetic exposition and evaluation of Peter Berger’s work as one of the world’s most accomplished and influential sociologists.
In the context of an examination of Berger’s ongoing work on the social construction of reality, styles of consciousness, the role of science-based technology, pluralism, and other pertinent topics, the author also considers Berger’s unique and thoughtful approach to research and theorizing. Berger’s method of ‘sociological tourism’, which departs sharply from the current emphasis in the social sciences on ever more complex and ostensibly rigorous statistical procedures, provides a refreshing move away from the increasingly esoteric and sometimes alienating methodological self-consciousness that characterizes contemporary sociology.
Read more