“Durkheim tells us: “The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.”27 And Weber observes: “Both for sociology in the present sense, and for history, the object of cognition is the subjective meaning-complex of action.”28 These two… — 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
