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Peter Ludwig Berger was born on March 17, 1929, in Vienna, Austria, to George William and Jelka (Loew) Berger, who were Jewish converts to Christianity. [5] He emigrated to the United States shortly after World War II in 1946 at the age of 17 [ 4 ] and in 1952 he became a naturalized citizen.
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."
The term was coined by Peter L. Berger, who says he draws his meaning of it from the ideas of Karl Marx, G. H. Mead, and Alfred Schutz. [1] For Berger, the relation between plausibility structure and social "world" is dialectical, the one supporting the other which, in turn, can react back upon the first.
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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 ...
Berger was born on 5 November 1926 [1] in Stoke Newington, London, [2] [3] the first of two children of Miriam and Stanley Berger. [4]His grandfather was from Trieste, now Italy, [5] and his father, Stanley, raised as a non-religious Jew who adopted Catholicism, [6] had been an infantry officer on the Western Front during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross [3] [7] and an OBE.
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Peter Hamilton argues that the thinkers of the Enlightenment produced a sociology of ideas and values when they turned their attention to the scientific analysis of society. [ 7 ] : 1 He argues that specific values inherent in critical rationalism , such as anthropocentrism (i.e., the assumption that humans are the most crucial element in ...