Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter berger

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  • RELIGIOUS AMERICA, SECULAR EUROPE?
    PETER BERGER / GRACE DAVIE / EFFIE FOKAS
    Europe is a relatively secular part of the world in global terms. Why is this so? And why is the situation in Europe so different from that in the United States? The first chapter of this book - the theme - articulates this contrast. The remaining chapters - the variations - look in turn at the historical, philosophical, institutional and sociological dimensions of thes...

    $999.00

  • A FUTURE SOUTH AFRICA
    PETER L. BERGER
    This book identifies the key 'actors' whose visions and strategies are crucial to the pattern which change will take in South Africa. These actors, their visions and 'strategic logic' were subjected to a critique by their researchers in the light of contemporary South African 'realities'. ...

    $779.00

  • THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL COHESION
    PETER L. BERGER
    Normative conflicts center on fundamental disagreements over issues of public morality and the identity of a society. In thinking about normative conflicts on a global scale, two principal questions arise. First, are there common characteristics of such conflicts worldwide? Second, which institutions polarize such conflicts and which can serve to mediate them? This pathbreaking...

    $1,439.00

  • THE MODERN ANTHROPOLOGY OF INDIA
    PETER BERGER, FRANK HEIDERMANN
    The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particu...

    $1,659.00

  • THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
    PETER L. BERGER / THOMAS LUCKMANN
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review).   In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosop...

    $229.00

  • DEVELOPING CULTURES
    LAWRENCE E. HARRISON / PETER BERGER
    Developing Cultures: Case Studies is a collection of 27 essays by a group of leading internationals scholars on the role of culture and cultural change in the evolution of countries and regions around the world. ...

    $1,339.00