Background
Ronald Berger was born on January 3, 1951, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is the son of Michael and Mildred (Klempner) Berger.
Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
Berger received a Bachelor of Arts (1973), a Master of Arts (1975), and a Doctor of Philosophy (1980) from the University of California, Los Angeles.
(Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelcha...)
Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelchair athletes associated with a premier collegiate wheelchair basketball program. The book, which grapples with the intersection of biography and history in society, situates the study in a broader context with background on the history and sociology of disability and disability sports. It documents the development and evolution of the basketball program and tells the individual life stories of the athletes, highlighting the formative interpersonal and institutional experiences that influenced their agentive actions, and that helped them achieve success in wheelchair sports.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OMWINU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0
2010
(Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological acco...)
Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author’s uncle, survived outside the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish Partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet army. As an exemplary "theorized life history," Surviving the Holocaust applies concepts from life course theory to interpret the trajectories of the brothers’ lives, enhancing this approach with insights from agency-structure and collective memory theory.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YCPXJE/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
2010
(The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solut...)
The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solution took the lives of approximately six million Jews, amounting to roughly 60 percent of European Jewry and a third of the world's Jewish population. Studying the Holocaust from a sociological perspective, Ronald J. Berger explains why the Final Solution happened to a particular people for particular reasons; why the Jews were, for the Nazis, the central enemy. Taking a unique approach in its examination of the devastating event, The Holocaust, Religion, and the Politics of Collective Memory fuses history and sociology in its study of the Holocaust. Berger's book illuminates the Holocaust as a social construction. As historical scholarship on the Holocaust has proliferated, perhaps no other tragedy or event has been as thoroughly documented. Yet sociologists have paid less attention to the Holocaust than historians and have been slower to fully integrate the genocide into their corpus of disciplinary knowledge and realize that this monumental tragedy affords opportunities to examine issues that are central to main themes of sociological inquiry.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0747PJZH7/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2
2012
(Ronald Berger provides students with a comprehensive, acc...)
Ronald Berger provides students with a comprehensive, accessible introduction to the key themes and controversies in disability studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Disability-Studies-Ronald-Berger/dp/1588268918
2013
(Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American ...)
Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American Dream is a collaborative effort to tell the life story of Jon A. Feucht, a man who was born with a form of cerebral palsy that left him reliant on a wheelchair for mobility, with limited use of his arms and an inability to speak without an assistive communication device. It is a story about finding one’s voice, about defying low expectations, about fulfilling one’s dreams, and about making a difference in the world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HFU9OYQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3
2013
(Children, Save Yourselves! is a compelling true story of ...)
Children, Save Yourselves! is a compelling true story of two Jewish brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march. The other brother, the author’s uncle, survived outside of the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet Army. The book traces the defining prewar, wartime, and postwar events that marked their extraordinary lives.
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Save-Yourselves-Holocaust-Survival-ebook/dp/B078JY5LDH/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Children%2C+Save+Yourselves%21&qid=1603107449&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
2018
Ronald Berger was born on January 3, 1951, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He is the son of Michael and Mildred (Klempner) Berger.
Berger received a Bachelor of Arts (1973), a Master of Arts (1975), and a Doctor of Philosophy (1980) from the University of California, Los Angeles.
In 1976 Ronald J. Berger took a position as an instructor in sociology at California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California. From 1979 to 1981 he was a visiting lecturer in sociology at the University of California, Riverside, California.
In 1981 Bergen started his work at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin, where he held a number of positions such as an assistant professor (1981-1985), associate professor (1985-1989), and professor of sociology since 1989. He is also a coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program since 1985.
Ronald is a guest on radio programs; presenter of public lectures.
His work has appeared in Contexts, Perspectives on Social Problems, Qualitative Inquiry, Social Science Quarterly, and Sociological Quarterly. He is the author of numerous books, including "Surviving the Holocaust: A Life Course Perspective" and "White-Collar Crime: The Abuse of Corporate and Government Power."
His "Constructing a Collective Memory of the Holocaust: A Life History of Two Brothers' Survival" is the true story of his uncle and father, Jewish men who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland as children. One brother endured several concentration camps, while the other passed as Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles and eventually became an officer in the Soviet Army.
Berger is the author (with W. Ulbricht) of the screenplay "The Promise," based on Berger's book "Constructing a Collective Memory of the Holocaust."
(The program of extermination Nazis called the Final Solut...)
2012(Ronald Berger provides students with a comprehensive, acc...)
2013(Hoop Dreams on Wheels is a life-history study of wheelcha...)
2010(Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological acco...)
2010(Children, Save Yourselves! is a compelling true story of ...)
2018(Disability, Augmentative Communication, and the American ...)
2013Berger is a Judaist.
Berger is a member of the Wisconsin Sociological Association.
Ronald married Ruthy K. in 1989. They have three children: Corey Spalola, Chad Spatola, Sarah.