Bennett Berger

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Bennett Maurice Berger (born 1926 in Brooklyn ; † November 10, 2005 in La Jolla ) was an American cultural sociologist.

Berger grew up in the Bronx and served in the US Navy during World War II . He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught as a professor at the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Davis . Berger died of pancreatic cancer.

Based on his pioneering study of deviant behavior in working class families in the suburbs, Berger continued his research on youth and adult cultures in society at the time. It also dealt with changes in American culture due to the emergence of subcultures and the shift in generational norms.

His estate is in the University Library of the University of California, Davis (Collection D-441).

Fonts (selection)

  • Working-class suburb. A study of auto workers in suburbia . University of California Press, Berkeley 1968.
  • Looking for America. Essays on youth, suburbia, and other American obsessions . Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs 1971, ISBN 0135405009 .
  • An essay on culture. Symbolic structure and social structure . University of California Press, Berkeley 1995, ISBN 0520200160 .
  • The survival of a counterculture. Ideological work and everyday life among rural communards . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick 2004, ISBN 0765808056 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis H. Orzack, Berger, Bennet M. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf and Horst Knospe (eds.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon , Volume 2. 2. Edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1984, p. 64.
  2. ^ Entry in the Online Archive of California , accessed August 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Bennett
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, Bennett Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cultural sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2005
Place of death La Jolla