Queering the Dragonfest: Changing Sexualities in a Post-Patriarchal Religion.

Sociology of Religion | December 22, 2000| | Copyright

Mary Jo Neitz [*]

In Invitation to sociology, Peter Berger described the sociological consciousness as characterized by debunking, unrespectability, relativizing, and cosmopolitan qualities (1963: 52). Berger influenced generations of sociologists with his view that the goal of sociology was to look beneath taken-for-granted assumptions, to debunk them, and lay bare the processes of social construction (1963: 38). He portrayed sociology as a tool for this debunking, and told us how difficult the work can be. "How can I be sure, say, of sociological analysis of ...

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