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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Peter Berger"”.
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Legitimating a theodicy : Peter Berger and the search for meaning in post-Enlightenment society
… of the significant contemporary sociologist, Peter L. Berger. Berger is concerned with the issue of how meaning is constructed in modern, secular, bureaucratic society. Furthermore, this thesis seeks to outline, and trace the development of, Berger's thought. To achieve this the thesis …
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Evangelical critical discourse and the modern world: The sources and implications of the work of Craig Gay
… Theory (Max Weber), Constructionist sociology (Peter Berger), socio-technological critique (Jacques Ellul), secular psychology (Kenneth Gergen) and personal philosophical reflection (Martin Buber). Through these sources he analyzes the malaise of both the modern secular world and the Evangelical …
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Islam på svenska : tidskriften Salaam och islams globalisering
… the sociology of knowledge in the tradition of Peter Berger, the notions of power, discourse and genealogy of Michel Foucault, and theories of globalization and religion, the dissertation attempts to uncover a complex genealogy. Three globally spread discourses are identified as important in the …
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Portraits Through the Lens of Historicity: The American Family as Portrayed in Ladies Home Journal 1950-1959
… be explained and incorporated into the study. Peter Berger, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger join the conversation to help explain the complexities of the 1950s and the American family.</p><p> Special emphasis is given to the 1950s family and how they …
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"Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.
Peter Berger's The Sacred Canopy argues that explanations of evil are necessary for social systems to stay themselves against chaotic forces. Individuals survive crises based on explanations of evil. In chapter one, I examine in Alexander Pope's personal letters how his reliance upon religious …
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Rehearsal for survivorship: a qualitative analysis of later life husbands and wives
… and functional reality and from the ideas of Peter Berger and his associates on how the marital conversation stabilizes the individual's sense of the world. Fourteen long-married couples ages 50 to 80 were interviewed. They are Caucasian, middle and upper-middle class people, married from 29 …
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Firearms, technology and culture: resistance of Taiwanese indigenes to Chinese, European and Japanese encroachment in a global context circa 1860-1914
… (associated especially with the work of Peter Berger and Stephen Hill) need historical nuancing upon further consideration of extraneous factors, exact physical location, and precise temporal or sequential location of major events.
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Religiositet bland migranter : Sverige-chilenares förhållande till religion och samfund
… accomplished primarily through an application of Peter Berger’s and Thomas Luckmann’s conceptions of socialization and plausibility structures. The study also discusses the conception of religiosity and, given this topic, which groups or individuals may be studied. Both the findings from the …