Society
Today’s social science post comes from sociologist, Peter Berger, from “Invitation to Sociology.”

Today’s social science post comes from sociologist, Peter Berger, from “Invitation to Sociology.”

Michael Porter is a business professor whose expertise is in corporate strategy. He argues that businesses should step up and address social problems rather than simply leave it to the not for profit groups and philanthropists. Continue reading Philanthropy Business
Continue reading “The Excitement of Sociology”“However, much of the time the sociologist moves in sectors of experience that are familiar to him [sic] and to most people in his society… It is not the excitement of coming upon the totally unfamiliar, but rather the excitement of finding the familiar becoming transformed in its meaning. The fascination of sociology lies on the fact that its perspective makes us see in a new light the very world in which we have lived all our lives.”
– Peter Berger, (1963: 21) “Invitation to Sociology” [my emphasis]