Peter Ludwig Berger (17 March 1929 – 27 June 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of …
Among sociologists, C. Wright Mills ranks 22 out of 79. Before him are Karl Mannheim, Manuel Castells, Pitirim Sorokin, Alain Touraine, Peter L. Berger, and Paul Lazarsfeld. …
Peter L. Berger and C. Wright Mills in their books, analyze the primary ways to think sociologically as a whole. Berger shows that to understand what's truly going on with …
Peter L. Berger was an Austrian-born American sociologist known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, …
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was one of the most influential sociologists of the last sixty years. In the sociology of religion, his publications are among the key works of the discipline. This paper is a "positive critique" of three aspects of Berger's theoretical work …
Over a long and prodigiously fertile academic career, Peter Berger's vision of sociology has consistently emphasized its debunking and unmasking properties. Such …
The sociological imagination as described by C. Wright Mills is "the ability to understand the intersection between biography and history or interplay of self and the world."
A Rumor of Angels (1970) was my introduction to the writings of Peter Berger in the 1970s when he was beginning to rethink his thoughts on religion and …
As Peter L. Berger (1963, pp. 23–24) noted in his classic book Invitation to Sociology, "The first wisdom of sociology is this—things are not what they seem." Social reality, he said, …
At his untimely death in 1962, C. Wright Mills seemed well on the way to advancing from the first rank of American sociologists to the first rank of world intellectuals.