Research Catalog

Title

The new sociology of knowledge : the life and work of Peter L. Berger / Michaela Pfadenhauer ; with selected essays by Peter L. Berger.

Author

Pfadenhauer, Michaela, 1968-

Publication

New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Berger, Peter L., 1929-2017

Description

xxii, 152 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"A classical sociologist can be defined as someone whose "works occupied a central position among the sociological ideas and notions of an era." Following this criterion, Michaela Pfadenhauer demonstrates the relevance of Peter L. Berger's work to the sociology of knowledge. Pfadenhauer shows that Berger is not only a sociologist of religion, but one whose works are characterized by a sociology-of-knowledge perspective." --

Uniform Title

Peter L. Berger. English

Alternative Title

• Peter L. Berger.
• Life and work of Peter L. Berger

Subject

• Berger, Peter L., 1929-2017
• Sociologists > Biography
• Knowledge, Sociology of
• Religion and sociology

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction and biographical overview -- Beginnings of the new sociology of knowledge : influences, teachers, and collaborators -- Peter L. Berger : reflections on the twenty-fifth anniversary of The social construction of reality -- Modernity and pluralism -- Peter L. Berger : pluralism, protestantization, and the voluntary principle -- Religion and desecularization -- Peter L. Berger : the desecularization of the world : a global overview -- Culture and socioeconomic change -- Peter L. Berger : our economic culture -- Knowledge and reality -- Peter L. Berger : Identity as a problem in the sociology of knowledge -- Reception and impact of hte new sociology of knowledge --- References -- Bibliography of Peter L. Berger's contributions ot this book -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781412849890
• 1412849896

LCCN

^^2012036152

OCLC

• 810586133
• SCSB-11824870

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library