Peter Berger

Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) was an Austrian-American sociologist and Presbyterian minister whose work on the sociology of knowledge, religion, and modernization remains one of the most accessible yet theoretically rigorous contributions to twentieth-century social thought. His collaboration with Thomas Luckmann on The Social Construction of Reality (1966) transformed the sociology of knowledge from a marginal specialty into a central framework for understanding how ordinary people sustain and inhabit shared worlds. Berger argued that society is a drama