Author Description

Background: Berger's Prose, Presentation, And Purpose -- Institutions: Berger's Conceptual Foundation -- The Sociological Tourist -- Ever The Weberian -- Sociological Insights Into The Exemplary, The Everyday, And The Execrable -- Socially Constructing Modernization, Modernity, And Our Social World -- Production Through Science-based Technology -- Modes Of Production And Cognitive Styles -- Provisionally Taking Stock: Modes Of Production And Cognitive Styles -- Modes Of Production And Cognitive Styles Amplified -- Reality As A Social Creation -- Pluralism -- Pluralism And Capitalism -- What Has Been Done? -- Styles Of Consciousness And Pluralism -- Reservations About Pluralism -- The Complexity Of Modern Consciousness -- The Continuing Influence Of Weber -- Modernization Augmented -- Modernity And Its Discontents: A Suitably Ironic Closing. Robert Bickel, Professor Emeritus, Advanced Educational Studies, College Of Education, Marshall University. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 187-194) And Index.