“In sum, the actor identifies with the socially objectivated typifications of conduct in actu, but re-establishes distance from them as he reflects… — 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… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“For example, only some members of a hunting society have the experience of losing their weapons and being forced to fight a… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“As long as the nascent institutions are constructed and maintained only in the interaction of A and B, their objectivity remains tenuous,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“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
“I also know, of course, that the others have a perspective on this common world that is not identical with mine. My… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“The reality of everyday life further presents itself to me as an intersubjective world, a world that I share with others. This… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“Reification implies that man is capable of forgetting his own authorship of the human world, and further, that the dialectic between man,… — 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
“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
