1st Edition
Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity An Unvarnished Overview
1. Background: Berger’s Prose, Presentation, and Purpose
2. Institutions: Berger’s Conceptual Foundation
3. The Sociological Tourist
4. Ever the Weberian
5. Sociological Insights into the Exemplary, the Everyday, and the Execrable
6. Socially Constructing Modernization, Modernity, and Our Social World
7. Production through Science-Based Technology
8. Modes of Production and Cognitive Styles
9. Provisionally Taking Stock: "Modes of Production and Cognitive Styles"
10. Modes of Production and Cognitive Styles Amplified
11. Reality as a Social Creation
12. Pluralism
13. Pluralism and Capitalism
14. What has Been Done
15. Styles of Consciousness and Pluralism
16. Reservations about Pluralism
17. The Complexity of Modern Consciousness
18. The Continuing Influence of Weber
19. Modernization Augmented
20. Modernity and Its Discontents: A Suitably Ironic Closing
Biography
Robert Bickel is Professor Emeritus of Advanced Educational Studies at Marshall University, USA, and author of Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research and Classical Social Theory in Use.
Peter Berger is one of the most gifted but understated public intellectuals working today. Bickel presents a unique evaluation of the development of Berger's ideas from 'Invitation to Sociology', his contribution to the sociology of knowledge, relationship between faith and development, and recent work on global political and economic inequality.
Shaun Best, University of Winchester, UK
