All Peter L. Berger Quotes
- Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy. Asymmetrical
- I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other… Aggravation
- If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example. Bad
- So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have… Democracy
- On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other… Always Hovers
- The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of becoming man… Already Standing
- The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. Changing
- Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which… All
- Sociology presupposes a certain awareness that human events have different levels of meaning, some of which are hidden from the consciousness of everyday life Awareness