Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity : An Unvarnished Overview (Paperback)

1. Background: Berger’s Prose, Presentation, and Purpose 2. Institutions: Berger’s Conceptual Foundation 3. The Sociological Tourist 4. Ever the Weberian 5. Sociological Insights into the Exemplary, the Everyday, and the Execrable 6. Socially Constructing Modernization, Modernity, and Our Social World 7. Production through Science-Based Technology 8. Modes of Production and Cognitive Styles 9. Provisionally Taking Stock: "Modes of Production and Cognitive Styles" 10. Modes of Production and Cognitive Styles Amplified 11. Reality as a Social Creation 12. Pluralism 13. Pluralism and Capitalism 14. What has Been Done 15. Styles of Consciousness and Pluralism 16. Reservations about Pluralism 17. The Complexity of Modern Consciousness 18. The Continuing Influence of Weber 19. Modernization Augmented 20. Modernity and Its Discontents: A Suitably Ironic Closing