By Robert Bickel
With specific realization to his paintings on modernization and modernity as construed by way of a sociologist of data, this e-book deals a sympathetic exposition and review of Peter Berger’s paintings as one of many world’s so much complete and influential sociologists.
In the context of an exam of Berger’s ongoing paintings at the social building of truth, varieties of awareness, the position of science-based know-how, pluralism, and different pertinent themes, the writer additionally considers Berger’s precise and considerate method of study and theorizing. Berger’s approach to ‘sociological tourism’, which departs sharply from the present emphasis within the social sciences on ever extra complicated and ostensibly rigorous statistical approaches, offers a fresh circulate clear of the more and more esoteric and occasionally alienating methodological self-consciousness that characterizes modern sociology.
With this distinct strategy, this booklet will attract students and scholars of sociology who percentage Berger’s curiosity. the significance of modernization and modernity on a global scale is indisputable, and a deeper realizing in their nature and outcomes, also will profit individuals of the clever laity who're now not sociological experts yet are open to new principles which are sincerely explained.
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