Peter L. Berger
Peter Ludwig Berger (March 17, 1929) is an Austrian-born American sociologist known for his work in the sociology of religion, society and the individual, study of modernization, and his theoretical contributions. He is best known for his book, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966), which is considered one of the most influential texts in the sociology of knowledge and played a central role in the development of social constructionism, despite the critiques he has received. He has lived a life dedicated to sociology, writing a numerous amount of works, and he has taught and inspired his students at Boston University and Baruch College.
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“Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
“The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)