Community Quote by Peter L. Berger

“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a…

— Charles Stross

“Reciprocal typifications of actions are built up in the course of a shared history. They cannot be created instantaneously. Institutions always have a history,…

— Peter L. Berger

Discipling involves instruction and imitation.

— Mark Dever

“A number of ethical, aesthetic, psychiatric or forensic classfications that are produced by the "institutional sciences",not to mention those produced and inculcated by the…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“A society is an organic system that develops spontaneously, governed by myriad interactions and adjustments that no human mind can pretend to understand. Just…

— Steven Pinker

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements…

— John Rawls

“to uncover the true workings of human society from beneath the aesthetic surface under observation. (xiii)”

— Émile Zola

“The development of specific mechanisms of social controls also becomes necessary with the historicization and objectivation of institutions. Deviance from the institutionally “programmed” courses…

— Peter L. Berger

Humans exist in social groups and rely on social signals to make the group work - signals that are symbolic, and appear without teeth,…

— Zeynep Tufekci

“Three broad mechanisms—identity claims, feeling regulators, and behavioral residue—seemed to connect people to the spaces that surrounded them.”

— Sam Gosling

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

— Timothy Leary