Peter Ludwig Berger (born March 17, 1929) is an American sociologist well known for his work The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966). March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Socially constructed reality forms a concept within the sociology of knowledge and the social constructionist strand of postmodernism. ...

Biography

Berger was born in Vienna and emigrated to the United States shortly after World War II. In 1949 he graduated from Wagner College with a Bachelor of Arts. He continued his studies at the New School for Social Research in New York (M.A. in 1950, Ph. D. in 1952). Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine states (Land Wien). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Wagner College is a college located on Staten Island. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... The New School is an institution of higher learning in New York City. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1955 and 1956 he worked at the Evangelische Akademie in Bad Boll, Germany. From 1956 to 1958 Berger was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina; from 1958 to 1963 he was an associate professor at Hartford Theological Seminary. The next stations in his career were professorships at the New School for Social Research, Rutgers University, and Boston College. Since 1981 Berger has been Professor of Sociology and Theology at Boston University, and since 1985 also director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the eleventh-oldest institution of higher education (and arguably the oldest public institution) in the United States. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is the largest institution for higher education in the U.S. state of New Jersey. ... Website www. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the year. ...

Works

The influential sociological works of Berger include:

• Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (1963)
• The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966, with Thomas Luckmann)
• The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967)
• A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural, 1970.

Today he writes on the sociology of religion and capitalism: Thomas Luckmann (b. ...

• The Capitalist Spirit: Toward a Religious Ethic of Wealth Creation (editor, 1990).
• Peter Berger and the Study of Religion, 2001
• Homeless Mind : Modernization and Consciousness, 1974
• Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience, 1997
• Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World, 1974. with Samuel P. Huntington
• The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics. et al. 1999
• Questions of Faith: A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity (Religion and the Modern World), 2003
• A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in an Age of Credibility, 1992.
• Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
• The Limits of Social Cohesion: Conflict and Mediation in Pluralist Societies : A Report of the Bertelsmann Foundation to the Club of Rome
• Other Side of God, 1981, ISBN 0385174241

References

• James D. Hunter, Stephen C. Ainley. Making Sense of Modern Times: Peter L. Berger and the Vision of Interpretive Sociology
• Robert Wuthnow. Cultural Analysis: The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas

Honours

Berger is doctor honoris causa of Loyola University, Wagner College, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Geneva, and Munich University. He is an honorary member of many scientific associations. Several historic and current educational institutions are named in honor of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. ... Wagner College is a college located on Staten Island. ... Not to be confused with the University of Notre Dame Australia The University of Notre Dame is a leading Roman Catholic institution of higher learning. ... The University of Geneva (Université de Genève) is one of the oldest universities in the world. ... With approximately 48,000 students, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München or LMU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. ...

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