Peter L. Berger was an internationally renowned sociologist, celebrated for his work on the social construction of reality. His writing explored how society shapes our perceptions and how religion and culture influence social life. Berger's approach was characterized by an effort to bridge theoretical sociology with practical questions of faith and human experience. His contributions remain influential for those interested in the interplay between society, culture, and belief.
Called the "fifth-most important sociological book of the 20th century" by the International Sociological Association, this groundbreaking study of knowledge introduces the concept of "social construction" into the social sciences for the first time. In it, Berger and Luckmann reformulate the task of the sociological subdicipline that, since Max Scheler, has been known as the sociology of knowledge.
Offers an account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both discussion and investigations. This book presents an analysis of knowledge in everyday life in the context of a theory of society as a dialectical process between objective and subjective reality.
An absorbing and original examination that brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs—featuring illustrations drawn from a variety of primitive, ancient, and contemporary religions. In this book, Berger that religion is the "sacred canopy" which every human society builds over its world to give it meaning, expanding on theories of knowledge that he first explored (with Thomas Luckmann) in The Social Construction of Reality.
This report is the result of years of cooperation between the Club of Rome and the Bertelsmann Science Foundation. It gives a better understanding of the limits to social cohesion and the increasing role of intermediate institutions or of individual leaders in the mediation of normative conflicts.
