Education
A native of Brooklyn, he was educated at Thomas Jefferson High School and Brooklyn College.
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Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations by Joseph Berger (1989-11-01)
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Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations
(This volume explores the leading edge of theoretical deve...)
This volume explores the leading edge of theoretical development in sociology between 1972 and 1989. It contains the work of some of the leading sociological theorists, presents extensions or reformulations of existing theories and some wholly new theories. The editors particularly wish to show the range of middle-range theory - theory orientated towards empirical knowledge of specific domains as opposed to overarching frameworks for all sociology.
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Joseph Berger
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After earning his doctoral degree in sociology at Harvard University in the 1950s, where he had been taught by Talcott Parsons, he established a theoretical and experimental research program at Stanford. The program, Expectation States Theory, has many branches and through his mentorship of generations of graduate students, this program has been a unique example of the growth of knowledge in sociology through chains of theory development accompanied by experimental tests and refinements. His current research focuses on gender relations in interpersonal settings, status characteristics theory, and cumulative theory in social science.
Berger, along with collaborators, has edited a large number of books to which invited scholars have contributed papers that elaborate upon one or another "sociological theory in progress." Joseph Berger is married to Margeret Berger.
He has three children. Gideon, Rachel, and Adam.
He also has three grandchildren. Isaiah Orlando, Jonah Elias Orlando, and Paul Berger.
Achievements
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Berger is a recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award from the American Sociological Association to honor long-term distinguished contributions to the intellectual and scientific advancement of social psychology. In 2007, he received the W. E. B. Du Bois Award for his contributions to the field of sociology.
Works
book
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Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations
(This volume explores the leading edge of theoretical deve...)
- Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations by Joseph Berger (1989-11-01)
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Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations
Membership
His expertise is in the area of status processes and status relations among members of different groups, processes of legitimation, reward expectations and distributive justice, and theory construction in the behavioral sciences.
