Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones. — 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
In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share
“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
F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period. — Peter L. Berger Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share
“Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share
“...his consuming interest remains in the world of men, their institutions, their history, their passions. And because he is interested in men, nothing that… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share
