Sociology of Religion and Sociology of KnowledgeAustrian-born American1929–2017
Society is a human product; society is an objective reality; and human beings are products of society.
Peter Ludwig Berger was an Austrian-born American sociologist and a leading figure in the sociology of religion and the sociology of knowledge. His co-authored book The Social Construction of Reality, written with Thomas Luckmann, played a major role in formulating the theory of the social construction of reality. Berger was also an influential thinker on modernity, secularization, religious pluralism, and the relationship between faith and doubt in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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