Bøker av Joseph Berger

An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Eliezer Wiesel (1928-2016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Holocaust at a time when the world preferred to forget. This portrait presents Wiesel as both a revered Nobel laureate and a man of complex psychological texture.

Status, Power, and Legitimacy presents methodological, theoretical, and empirical essays by Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr

An introduction to some influential modern sociological theories, each covered in an essay by the theory's founder or by a leading exponent. Using non-technical language, each essay reviews the key positions and supporting research, and many also discuss critical or opposing positions.