Peter A. Berger
Peter Anton Berger , in publications mainly Peter A. Berger (born March 8, 1955 in Velden ; † September 14, 2018 ) was a German sociologist .
Career
After graduating from high school in Landshut (1974), Peter A. Berger did community service at the Catholic Men's Welfare Association in Munich . From 1975 he studied sociology with the minor subjects psychology and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After the acquisition of the academic degree diploma -Soziologe (1981), he was a research associate at the Department of Ulrich Beck at the University of Bamberg , where he in 1985 with the work "destructurized class society?" Doctorate . Berger continued to work at the University of Bamberg until 1993. In 1994 he qualified as a professor in sociology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and then took on a substitute professorship at the University of Potsdam (summer semester 1994) . In the winter semester of 1994/95 he switched to a substitute professorship at the University of Rostock , where he has been a full professor for general sociology - macrosociology since 1995 . From 1995 to 2011 Berger was the spokesman for the section on social inequality and social structure analysis in the German Society for Sociology, and since 2007 he has been a member of the board of the German Society for Sociology .
Berger's main areas of work were: social structure analysis , social inequality , social mobility and life courses , modernization , sociological theory.
Berger died at the age of 63.
Fonts (selection)
As an author
- Customization. Uncertainty of status and diversity of experience . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1996, ISBN 978-3-531-12790-3 (also habilitation thesis, University of Rostock 1995).
- Destructured class society? Class formation and structures of social inequality in historical change . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1986, ISBN 978-3-531-11796-6 (also dissertation, University of Bamberg, 1985).
- Form of rule city. A sociological reconstruction of the city's history in antiquity . Academic, Munich 1983, ISBN 978-3-89000-010-7 .
As editor
- With Heike Kahlert : Institutionalized inequalities. How education blocks opportunities . 3rd edition, Beltz Juventa, Weinheim / Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-7799-1590-4 .
- With Heike Solga and Justin JW Powell: Social Inequality. Classic texts on social structure analysis . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38847-2 .
- With Dirk Konietzka: The acquisition company. New inequalities and uncertainties . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8100-2998-0 .
- With Michael Vester : old inequalities, new divisions . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 978-3-8100-1937-0 .
- With Peter Sopp: social structure and curriculum vitae . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1995, ISBN 978-3-8100-1262-3 .
- With Stefan Hradil : life situations, résumés, lifestyles . Schwartz, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 978-3-509-01542-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter A. Berger in the catalog of the German National Library
- University of Rostock: Prof. Dr. Peter A. Berger ( Memento from August 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry on Peter A. Berger in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ^ DGS - German Society for Sociology: Peter A. Berger passed away. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (German).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berger, Peter A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berger, Peter Anton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Velden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 2018 |