“Some roles have no functions other than this symbolic representation of the institutional order as an integrated totality, others take on this function from time to time in addition to the less exalted functions they routinely perform. The judge, for… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“In our paradigmatic example, A and B, the original creators of the social world, can always reconstruct the circumstances under which their world and any part of it was established. That is, they can arrive at the meaning of an… — 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
