Peter Ludwig Berger was born March 17, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He studied in London before coming over to the United States shortly after World War II ended. He sought out a Bachelor’s Degree from Wagner College in Staten Island in New York. After completing his coursework in Staten Island, he continued on to receive his Masters and Doctorate degree from the New School of Research in New York. He married Bridgette Kellner and had two sons with her. As a child, Peter Berger would spend his summers in Italy, his mother’s native land. He speaks Italian fluently. Born into the Jewish faith, his parents converted to the Lutheran faith. He was forced to emigrate from Palestine to the United States in 1946 and became a US citizen. He
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He was a student of Alfred Schutz and was extremely passionate about religion and sociology of religion and knowledge. His work is derived from phenomenology, the study of phenomenon. He was highly influenced by the works of Karl Marx. He collaborated with Thomas Luckmann and wrote the book The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Other notable works by Berger include Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (1963) and The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967), The Homeless Mind (1973), The Accidental Sociologist (2011), Redeeming Laughter (1997), To Empower People (1977), A Far Glory (1992), Questions of Faith (2004), A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (1969), The Capitalist Revolution (1986), Sociology Reinterrupted (1981) and Facing up to Modernity (1977). Throughout Peter Berger’s time he taught at several institutions. He has worked at Evangelische Akademie in Bad Boll, University of North Carolina Greensboro Campus, Hartford Theological Seminary, the New School for Social Research, Rutgers University and Boston …show more content…
In this critically acclaimed work, Berger postulates that society is built upon human beliefs and “the reality of everyday live is organized around the ‘here’ and ‘now’ of my present.” (Berger 539) The “here and now” is what one believes to be true in the present and where they are located. What is believed to be true “here and now” in the United States may not necessarily be true in Europe. The social construction may be interrupted differently based on American Society versus European society. Berger and Luckmann continue how sociologically how things are accepted as
He was a student of Alfred Schutz and was extremely passionate about religion and sociology of religion and knowledge. His work is derived from phenomenology, the study of phenomenon. He was highly influenced by the works of Karl Marx. He collaborated with Thomas Luckmann and wrote the book The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. Other notable works by Berger include Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective (1963) and The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967), The Homeless Mind (1973), The Accidental Sociologist (2011), Redeeming Laughter (1997), To Empower People (1977), A Far Glory (1992), Questions of Faith (2004), A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural (1969), The Capitalist Revolution (1986), Sociology Reinterrupted (1981) and Facing up to Modernity (1977). Throughout Peter Berger’s time he taught at several institutions. He has worked at Evangelische Akademie in Bad Boll, University of North Carolina Greensboro Campus, Hartford Theological Seminary, the New School for Social Research, Rutgers University and Boston …show more content…
In this critically acclaimed work, Berger postulates that society is built upon human beliefs and “the reality of everyday live is organized around the ‘here’ and ‘now’ of my present.” (Berger 539) The “here and now” is what one believes to be true in the present and where they are located. What is believed to be true “here and now” in the United States may not necessarily be true in Europe. The social construction may be interrupted differently based on American Society versus European society. Berger and Luckmann continue how sociologically how things are accepted as