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  Peter L. Berger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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).
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.
Berger is doctor honoris causa of Loyola University, Wagner College, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Geneva, and Munich University.
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 John Berger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in England, Berger served in the British Army from 1944 to 1946; he then enrolled in the Chelsea School of Art and the Central School of Art in London.
When accepting the prize Berger made a point of donating half his cash award to the Black Panther Party in Britain, and retaining half to support his work on the study of migrant workers that became A Seventh Man, insisting on both as necessary parts of his political struggle.
Berger's recent novels include To the Wedding, a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis, and King: A Street Story, a novel on homeless and shantytown life told from the perspective of a street dog.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Berger   (866 words)

  
 Cal Law
Berger, who's been on the bench for nearly seven years after working as a public defender for more than 20, is the supervising judge of the Richmond courthouse.
Berger notes that the Richmond outpost of the court hosts many young attorneys still learning the ropes, and he concedes that he can get impatient and even frustrated when a lawyer misses a critical point in his own case or fails to explain it adequately.
Berger has also won respect of attorneys from both sides of the aisle for having a track record of making decisions promptly and for being fair.
www.law.com /regionals/ca/onthebench/berger.shtml   (747 words)

  
 Peter Berger's The Sacred Canopy: An Analysis
Peter Berger's The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion is, just as it purports to be, a theoretical work.
Berger is not attempting to create a sociological theory of religion, but rather to define several elements that would create such a theory.
Berger applies very few concrete examples in his sociological analysis of religion; however, he frequently discusses the changing impact of Protestantism on the world, and of the world on Protestantism.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/church_history/53071   (427 words)

  
 Oliphint_Berger's_Sociology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Berger's critique of the "demythologization" of Bultmann and the "translation model" of Feuerbach is that both assume at the outset the definitive and unchangeable character of secularization itself.
Berger, therefore, will opt for the inductive approach as that which alone is able to face modernity and religion together such that religion's plausibility in the face of modernity is restored.
Because Berger's position is neoclassical, he sees it as a progression from that which was before him, that which tended to look at only one side of the picture of reality.
mywebpages.comcast.net /oliphint/Writings/BERGER.htm   (9217 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Capitalist Revolution, by Peter L. Berger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Ulmer, Melville J. Peter Berger, a penetrating student of society who has explored issues ranging from the economies of the Third World to political theory and the sundry religions of mankind, here focuses upon a project that is at once grand in purview and yet tightly restrained in its immediate purposes.
...PETER BERGER, a penetrating student of society who has explored issues ranging from the economies of the Third World to political theory and the sundry religions of mankind, here focuses upon a project that is at once grand in purview and yet tightly restrained in its immediate purposes...
...Berger does not claim that capitalism is a sufficient condition for these indispensable elements of human welfare, but he does insist that it is a necessary condition...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V83I1P72-1.htm   (1912 words)

  
 Theology Today - Vol 35, No. 2 - July 1978 - BOOK REVIEW - Facing Up to Modernity
Berger is of course a moralist; he is, in fact, a Christian thinker.
Berger looks upon the sixties as a confused period in which people misread the malaise caused by the growth of technology and bureaucracy as signs of the emergence of a new society.
The youth movement is related by Berger to the personalist method of child rearing adopted by middle class parents in the fifties which left young people unprepared to live in the modern world defined by impersonal relations.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1978/v35-2-bookreview11.htm   (927 words)

  
 "The Routinization of Charisma?
Berger on the other hand is more concerned with tracing the changes in fortune of various 'dominant' motifs and in general adopts a more flexible and less theologically determined position, although ultimately he also seems to endorse the idea that the motif describes the essence (Berger 1954b:478).
Berger's presentation of both motifs raises the question of the extent to which the motif can be regarded as the cause of any historical changes.
Berger himself points out that strong organization can occur in a sect as a means of furthering the sect's mission in the world and that it is the retreat of the spirit rather than change in organizational forms which is of the essence of the transformation of the sect into the church (1954a:168; 1954b:480-1).
www.h-net.msu.edu /~bahai/bhpapers/vol2/motif.htm   (9108 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - A Far Glory, by Peter L. Berger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peter Berger's writings on religion are a rare combination of scholarly detachment and personal engagement.
As a leading figure in interpretive sociology, Berger, who teaches at Boston University, has provided a coherent account both of how the elements of the religious world view--what he terms the "sacred canopy"--are constituted and of how they come under challenge.
...Berger also has surprisingly little patience for those who in a Jewish context would be called "returnees," neotraditionalist and neo-orthodox types who "in laying claim to certitude, must deny [their] own experience of uncertainty...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V95I6P63-1.htm   (1944 words)

  
 Archdiocese of Milwaukee - Current News
AWAITING ORDINATION — Seminarian Peter Berger said his time serving a parish internship in Waukesha taught him that the life of a priest is not a lonely one, nor is it dull.
Berger, 26, said he was impressed by the pope’s life of service and his views on worldly possessions.
Berger said he’s read the official histories that have been published by the various branches of the armed forces in World War II.
www.archmil.org /news/ShowNews.asp?ID=2288   (855 words)

  
 Post Magazine: Everlasting Love (washingtonpost.com)
Peter: Just to add a small point: in observing the Bergers together over a period of weeks in various settings, it was not immediately evident that Allan was, in fact, a doc or a psychiatrist, so he does not "use" his training in any visible or heavy handed fashion.
Peter: To add my two cents, I also think that this is an important time in marriage--in the excitement and novelty of parenting--not to forget that the primary and most significant relationship remains the one with your mate.
Peter Perl and Dr. Allan Berger: Allan: My grandparents struggled to come to America to survive, to put bread on the table, and to give their children a better life than it was their fortune to endure.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A64356-2004Jan30.html   (3206 words)

  
 Peter L. Berger -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
From 1956 to 1958 Berger was an assistant professor at the (A university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) 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, (additional info and facts about Rutgers University) Rutgers University, and (additional info and facts about Boston College) Boston College.
Since 1981 Berger has been Professor of Sociology and Theology at (additional info and facts about Boston University) Boston University, and since 1985 also director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peter_l._berger.htm   (393 words)

  
 News & Events - The New School for Social Research
Peter Berger (Ph.D., Sociology, 1954), one of the pre-eminent sociologists of the twentieth century, received the Distinguished Alumni Award at the Graduate Faculty Commencement ceremony on May 21, 2003.
Born in Vienna, Professor Berger began his career at the New School, where he was Associate Professor, then Professor, of Sociology from 1963-70.
While at Rutgers, Professor Berger was also the Associate Editor of Worldview, a monthly periodical published by the Carnegie Council on Religion and International Affairs, not to mention the author of a novel, Protocol of a Damnation, published in 1975.
www.newschool.edu /gf/news/02-03/peterberger_alumniaward.htm   (532 words)

  
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Both deduction, which involves a reaffirmation of the authority of a religious tradition in the face of secular authority, and reduction, which attempts to reinterpret a religious tradition in the terms of secular authority, are rejected by Berger in favor of the induction.
Berger’s account of experience is surprisingly modern (i.e., non-constructivist) – I say “surprisingly” because Berger’s Sacred Canopy seems to suggest a different relationship between experience and interpretation (i.e., one in which experience is necessarily shaped by society) – both in its appeal to pre-theoretical experience and in its valorization of the liberal Protestant tradition.
Moreover, while Berger is keen to point out that the liberal Protestant tradition misread this core experience (as ethical) because of their cultural biases, he seems naively optimistic about his chances of circumventing his own cultural biases (although he falls smack into them in his account of mysticism).
people.bu.edu /wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/exp/resources/reviews/review_berger02.htm   (516 words)

  
 Speaking of Faith® from American Public Media | Globalization and the Rise of Religion
Listen to Web-only audio of Berger discussing why western Europe is currently the least religious area of the world — in fact, the only major geographic exception to the general vitality of religious energies and practices around the globe.
In this essay, sociologist Peter Berger presents a picture of the cultural dynamics of globalization that are often driven by varied religious and ethical traditions.
In the 1960s, Berger and other experts believed in secularization theory, which predicted that the power of religion would decrease across the globe with growing prosperity and modernization.
speakingoffaith.publicradio.org /programs/globalization/index.shtml   (3037 words)

  
 || DukeMedNews || Mayo Cardiologist s To Direct Duke Interventional Catheterization Program
At Mayo, Berger served as professor of medicine at the Mayo Medical School and director of clinical research for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Databank Group.
"Dr. Berger is one of the premiere interventional cardiologists in the world who has conducted groundbreaking research into the role of invasive procedures in improving outcomes, and in the development of new devices to open blocked coronary arteries in patients with cardiovascular disease," Goldschmidt said.
Berger is currently chairman of the catheterization and interventional cardiology committee of the American Heart Association, and serves on similar committees for the American College of Cardiology and Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention.
www.dukemednews.org /news/article.php?id=7375   (465 words)

  
 There is a Crucial Link Between Culture and Economics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peter L. Berger is director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture and professor of sociology at Boston University.
Berger: Yes, for understandable reasons, and in affluent societies such as the United States, where there is a great choice and wealth of consumer goods and services, people tend to be quite generous.
Berger: I think cases exist where there are tensions that individuals who are in positions of responsibility have to work through.
www.acton.org /publicat/randl/interview.php?id=198   (2062 words)

  
 Cardiovascular Cath Lab Conference: About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peter B. Berger, MD, is a professor of medicine and the director of interventional cardiology in the division of cardiology at the Duke University Medical Center.
Prior to assuming this position, Dr. Berger was a professor of medicine in the division of cardiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine for 14 years, where he primarily worked in the cardiac catheterization laboratory and coronary care unit.
Berger currently serves as the chairman of the American Heart Association committee on diagnostic and interventional catheterization, and also serves on the American College of Cardiology's and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Intervention's Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology Committees.
www.cathlabconference.org /about.html   (291 words)

  
 Peter Berger's The Homeless Mind thesis
For Peter Berger the sociologist, religion has always been a human construction, a social universe of meaning projecting a sacred cosmos.
This, in the Durkheimian sense, is seen as instability replacing stability, and thus Berger's use of the title "The Homeless Mind" (1974).
Whilst changes in modernity can be discussed generally, Berger, the Lutheran, is interested in religion and its changes and responses to social change and sees religion contributing to social change through its history as well as being changed by broader forces.
www.change.freeuk.com /learning/socthink/berger.html   (1107 words)

  
 Peter L. Berger Room
Article by Berger in 1992 reassessing his "invitation" and the state of Sociology
Society as a Human Product...by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION (a la Peter Berger as interpreted by Mike Leming)---Michael R. Leming, Ph.D. The Sacred Canopy...Discussion Questions for Chapter 1
www.angelfire.com /or/sociologyshop/PLB.html   (208 words)

  
 FQS 4(2) Westermayer: Peter Berger (2001). Computer und Weltbild. Habitualisierte Konzepte von der Welt der Computer ...
BERGER greift dabei vor allem auf philosophische, sozialpsychologische und kognitionswissenschaftliche Grundlagen zurück.
In den ersten beiden Kapiteln schöpft BERGER aus dem Vollen: Ausgehend von Alltagsvorstellungen des Weltbildbegriffs – und einer Kritik an der oftmals unfundierten Verwendung in den Sozialwissenschaften – nähert sich der Autor dem "Weltbild", indem er diesen Begriff mit anderen Konzepten vergleicht.
BERGER sieht hier drei Paare aus jeweils konfligierenden Paradigmen: Schule vs. Professionalität, Informatik vs. Mathematik sowie Denkstile der Kreativität vs. des Formalismus.
www.qualitative-research.net /fqs-texte/2-03/2-03review-westermayer-d.htm   (3735 words)

  
 Invitation to Sociology (Outline)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As I've said elsewhere in TSS, I think this book continues to be an excellent introduction to Sociology...despite some of its shortcomings (such as Berger's writing style and some of his particular philosophical views)...and even considering its 1963 copyright date.
I've also utilized Berger's ideas (and those of C. Wright Mills) as an "evaluative standard" by which to assess the sociological ideas of other thinkers (go here to read that essay).
My purpose with these outlines is to cut through some of Berger's unnecessary verbage and present the core ideas which are the essence of the book.
www.angelfire.com /or/sociologyshop/ITSOUT.html   (196 words)

  
 CESNUR 2001 - Countercultists on Internet (Cowan)
Berger 1967; Berger and Luckmann 1966; Blumer 1969; Denzin 1992; Prus 1996)-that is, meaning is never inherent in a situation, it is always constructed in the dialectic of ongoing conversation.
Berger and Luckmann 1966) of the negative NRM experience, the exit process, and the successful conversion to Christianity.
Following the biblical injunctions at 1 Peter 3:15 and Jude 3,11 its objective is to provide Christians with the apologetic tools necessary (a) to counter the claims of competing worldviews and, (b) effect the conversion of NRM members to conservative Christianity.
www.cesnur.org /2001/london2001/cowan.htm   (4153 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Peter L. Berger Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peter Ludwig Berger is an American sociologist well known for his work The Social Construction of Reality.
Table of contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 Honours Biography Berger was born in Vienna and emigr...
Peter Ludwig Berger (born March 17, 1929) is an American sociologist well known for his work The Social Construction of Reality (New York, 1966).
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 James Davison Hunter - Cultural Analysis The Work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, & Jurgen ...
This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are laying the foundation for a new approach to the study of culture.
The focus is specifically on culture, a concept that remains subject to ambiguites of treatment, and concentrates on questions concerning the definition and content of culture, its construction, its relations with social conditions, and the manner in which it may be changing.
In particular, the book shows that Berger, Douglas, Foucault, and Habermas have made strides towards defining cultuer as an objective element of social interaction which can be subjected to critical inverstigation.
www.virginia.edu /sociology/publications/hunterculturalanalysistheworkofpeterlbergermarydouglasmichaelfoucaultandjurgenhabemas.htm   (277 words)

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