Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Becoming a Bore
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1616143894 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among his more recent books are In Praise of Doubt (with Anton Zijderveld); Religious America, Secular Europe? (with Grace Davie and Effie Fokas); Questions of Faith; Many Globalizations (edited with Samuel Huntington); and Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience. He has written numerous books on sociological theory, the sociology of religion, and Third World development.
His many gifts as thinker and writer are on splendid display. His tireless work as an intellectual engaged in public issues has led to new and better understandings of the social forces of religion and economic development throughout the world. "Few writers have had as wide an impact on contemporary thinking about the sociology of modern society, culture, and religion as Peter Berger. Peter Berger is that rare person whose commanding intellect is matched by his enormous generosity to generations of students and colleagues who recognize in him the true spirit of intellectual inquiry. Social scientists have a great deal to learn from him and his skillful 'art of mistrust' at the
An Accidental Book Review Wayne Lusvardi This might be called an accidental review of eminent sociologist Peter Berger's memoir of the background events to his life work, which he has entitled "Adventures of Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World Without Being Boring." This review is accidental because in some respects I believe I have been Berger's accidental sociological doppelganger at times: having done graduate work in sociology, like Berger serving as a psychiatric social worker in the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Georg. Exactly what it says it is This book is a book about the author as the title indicates. A lot of biography stuff, and some history of the sociology of knowledge and related writings of Berger over the years. I found the stuff on the history of the sociology of knowledge, and the background of his and Luckmanns book, to be the most interesting. The biography is fairly interesting, not the most, but its still all interesting, a relatively short read that took me half a day while on Amtrak through the central valley of Cal. easy reading flapping in traumatized laughter puddle Peter Berger spent an evening with Ruth and the Latvians who settled in Queens after the Soviets had changed the nature of Latvia. The episode ends on page 40 with Berger never seeing Ruth again. There is an atavistic element in wanting some transformation to make everything alright that Ruth expressed on a walk to the subway with Berger after 40 minutes of listening to terrible things. America has many people who are here because Europeans expected a miraculous society and were not afraid to
Rather than writing an autobiography, he focuses on the main intellectual issues that motivated his work and the various people and situations he encountered in the course of his career. Berger is arguably the best-known American sociologist living today. For over two decades he and his colleagues have been tackling such important issues as globalization, the secularization of Europe, and the ongoing dialectic between relativism and fundamentalism in contemporary culture.What comes across throughout is Berger’s boundless curiosity with the many ways in which people interact in society. In this witty, intellectually stimulating memoir, Berger explains not only how he bec