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Peter Ludwig Berger [a] (17 March 1929 – 27 June 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge , the sociology of religion , study of modernization , and contributions to sociological theory .
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (1966), by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, proposes that social groups and individual persons who interact with each other, within a system of social classes, over time create concepts (mental representations) of the actions of each other, and that people become habituated to those concepts, and thus assume ...
In Berger's studies, religion was found to be increasingly marginalized by the increased influence of the trend of secularization. Berger identified secularization as happening not so much to social institutions, such as churches, due to the increase of the separation of church and state, but applying to "processes inside the human mind" producing "a secularization of consciousness."
Peter Berger may refer to: Peter Berger (rower) (born 1949), German Olympic rower; Peter Berger (Royal Navy officer) (1925–2003), British admiral; Peter B. Berger (born 1956), American cardiologist and researcher; Peter E. Berger (1944–2011), American film editor; Peter L. Berger (1929–2017), Austrian-born American sociologist and ...
Berger was particularly concerned with the loss of plausibility of the sacred in a modernist/postmodern world. [2] Berger considered that history "constructs and deconstructs plausibility structures", and that the plurality of modern social worlds was "an important cause of the diminishing plausibility of religious traditions." [3]
John Peter Berger (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ər / BUR-jər; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize , and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing , written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential.
Peter Lampert Bergen (born December 12, 1962) is an American author and producer who is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor at Arizona State University, and the host of the Audible podcast In the Room with Peter Bergen. Bergen has written seven books and edited three books.
Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) [1] is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy Very Bad Things (1998), the action comedy The Rundown (2003), the sports drama Friday Night Lights (2004), the action thriller The Kingdom (2007), the superhero comedy-drama Hancock (2008), the military science fiction war film Battleship (2012), the ...