Sociology Reinterpreted: An Essay on Method and Vocation

by Peter L. Berger

Very Good Paperback Garden City, Anchor Press-Doubleday, 1981. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Stiff white wraps, lettered in black and red. 183 pp. 1st ed. Slight wear, bright covers, square binding. Scattered internal highlighting and a few ink marks..

Genres: Sociology

183 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

Peter L. Berger was an internationally renowned sociologist, and the founder of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. He was born in Vienna and came to the U.S. in his late teens. He had a master's degree and a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in New York. After two years in the United States Army, he taught at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina before going to the Hartford Seminary Foundation as an Assistant Professor in Social Ethics.

In 1992, Peter Berger was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture. He was the author of many books, among them The Social Construction of Reality, The Homeless Mind, and Questions of Faith.

Reviews

[Krit Chanwong · Rating 5 out of 5]

You read sociology because you’re intellectually stimulated by it. I read sociology to prepare for if and when I’m invited to an orgy. We are NOT the same.