Marxism and Sociology: Views from Eastern Europe

by Peter L. Berger

Book discusses Marxism and sociology. Lots of interesting chapters.

246 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Peter L. Berger was an internationally renowned sociologist, and the founder of Boston University's Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. He was born in Vienna and came to the U.S. in his late teens. He had a master's degree and a doctorate from the New School for Social Research in New York. After two years in the United States Army, he taught at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina before going to the Hartford Seminary Foundation as an Assistant Professor in Social Ethics.

In 1992, Peter Berger was awarded the Manes Sperber Prize, presented by the Austrian government for significant contributions to culture. He was the author of many books, among them The Social Construction of Reality, The Homeless Mind, and Questions of Faith.

Reviews

[Titus Hjelm · Rating 3 out of 5]

I originally picked this up because it was a Peter Berger book (interestingly, he 'forgets' to include this in his list of publications in his autobiography). There is very little Berger here, of course, and his introduction is not even very illuminating regarding the contents. But the chapters are an interesting snapshot of East European sociology at the end of the 1960s--a very different era for sociology in many ways. Some of the chapters are more orthodox than others, but overall it is a good spread and there are even some ideas and insights that I'd never come across before (e.g. Marx as predecessor to role theory).