“Externalization and objectivation are moments in a continuing dialectical process. The third moment in this process, which is internalization (by which the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Everyday life presents itself as a reality interpreted by men and subjectively meaningful to them as a coherent world. As sociologists we… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“In sum, the actor identifies with the socially objectivated typifications of conduct in actu, but re-establishes distance from them as he reflects about his… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Different objects present themselves to consciousness as constituents of different spheres of reality. I recognize the fellowmen I must deal with in the course… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“It is in the legitimation of death that the transcending potency of symbolic universes manifests itself most clearly, and the fundamental terror-assuaging character of… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not, the result… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
