3.5
Good intro book, and I would have given it 4 stars, if in the late part of the book the writer dident repeat a simple point so many pages long. By the way he has his own ideas and prefences which can't be proofen to be true.

já asi nějak nechápu, jak a procm tohle někteří považují za nejlepší knihu a úvod o a do sociologie…
autor neustále opakuje, jak je sociologie nezaujatá a nehodnotící věda, přitom je to samá misogynie, rasismus, xenofobie a homofobie…

I forgot I was reading this book for school - that's how interesting it was!

Read it for school. It was interesting.

Berger did not have to go off like that.

DNF 40%, this book is not worth your time the author does not know his stuff. Skip this, read some Critical Theory instead.

Berger speaks on much wider a breadth of topics than he was prepared to. A good example of this on page 40 when he attributes Latent and Manifest to an American Sociologist born well after Freud had used the terms in Psychoanalysis. And on page 52 where his attempt at Dialectics lacks a determinate negation.

He also buys into a lot of propaganda in this piece. He considers himself a skeptic, sure, but that doesn't stop him from labelling defectors as brainwashed. It doesn't stop him from repeating old cold war propaganda. And it certainly doesn't cause him to question his own structuralist myths.

fascinating overview