Open AccessReview Piece
Author(s) -
Daniel Liechty
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
critical social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1543-9372
DOI - 10.22329/csw.v15i1.5912
Subject(s) - memoir , adventure , reading (process) , accidental , art history , psychoanalysis , art , sociology , philosophy , psychology , linguistics , physics , acoustics
Boston University sociologist Peter L. Berger recently published a memoir, under the telling title Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist (Berger, 2011). Although somewhat eclipsed now, during the 1970s and 1980s, Berger was one of the most widely read contemporary sociologists, and reading this book has often felt like reminiscing with an old friend. To be sure, I only know Berger through his books and other writings; I have never met the man personally. Yet in many ways (as any bibliophile will understand) I do feel like he is an old friend, one with whom I have had a troubled, on-again off-again relationship.