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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Peter L. Berger Peter Ludwig Berger (March 17, 1929) is an Austrian-born American sociologist known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theoretical contributions to sociological theory. He is best known for his book, co-authored with Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York, 1966), which is considered one of the most influential texts in... Read full biography of Peter L. Berger → 1 2 Ctrl → The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture. 0 The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty... → 0 The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. 0 Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it... → 0 Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy. 0 When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible... → 0 I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that... → 0 One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular... → 0 Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs... → 0 So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a... → 0 Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without... → 0 In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state. 0 We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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