Robert Bickel is Professor Emeritus of Advanced Educational Studies at Marshall University, USA, and author of Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research and Classical Social Theory in Use.

• 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

Peter Berger is one of the most gifted but understated public intellectuals working today. Bickel presents a unique evaluation of the development of Berger's ideas from 'Invitation to Sociology', his contribution to the sociology of knowledge, relationship between faith and development, and recent work on global political and economic inequality.Shaun Best, University of Winchester, UK

Robert Bickel is Professor Emeritus of Advanced Educational Studies at Marshall University, USA, and author of Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research and Classical Social Theory in Use.

• 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

Peter Berger is one of the most gifted but understated public intellectuals working today. Bickel presents a unique evaluation of the development of Berger's ideas from 'Invitation to Sociology', his contribution to the sociology of knowledge, relationship between faith and development, and recent work on global political and economic inequality.Shaun Best, University of Winchester, UK

Robert Bickel is Professor Emeritus of Advanced Educational Studies at Marshall University, USA, and author of Multilevel Analysis for Applied Research and Classical Social Theory in Use.

• 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

Peter Berger is one of the most gifted but understated public intellectuals working today. Bickel presents a unique evaluation of the development of Berger's ideas from 'Invitation to Sociology', his contribution to the sociology of knowledge, relationship between faith and development, and recent work on global political and economic inequality.Shaun Best, University of Winchester, UK