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Peter Berger on modernization and modernity : an unvarnished overview / Robert Bickel, Professor Emeritus, Advanced Educational Studies, College of Education, Marshall University

Bickel, Robert [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018

viii, 202 Seiten ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index

978-1-138-08520-6 (hbk. : £100.00); 978-0-367-20816-5 (pbk)

978-1-315-11139-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-315-11139-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2017011459

GBB7H0067

9781138085206

OCoLC: 1010495210 (aus SWB)     

MQ 3055      Ähnliche Literatur

HM651

303.48/3 ; 303.483

* Berger, Peter L. [1929-2017] ; Soziologie ; Modernisierung ; Sozialer Wandel      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Knowledge, Sociology of ; Technology -- Social aspects ; Civilization, Modern

Background: Berger's prose, presentation, and purpose -- Institutions: Berger's conceptual foundation -- The sociological tourist -- Ever the Weberian -- Sociological insights into the exemplary, the everyday, and the execrable -- Socially constructing modernization, modernity, and our social world -- Production through science-based technology -- Modes of production and cognitive styles -- Provisionally taking stock : "modes of production and cognitive styles" -- Modes of production and cognitive styles amplified -- Reality as a social creation -- Pluralism -- Pluralism and capitalism -- What has been done? -- Styles of consciousness and pluralism -- Reservations about pluralism -- The complexity of modern consciousness -- The continuing influence of Weber -- Modernization augmented -- Modernity and its discontents : a suitably ironic closing