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Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
Peter L. Berger
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Peter L. Berger
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: March 17
Died: 2017
Died: June 27
Sociologist
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Vienna
Austria
Peter Ludwig Berge
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Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.
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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization
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In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.
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If a socialist economy is opened up to increasing degrees of market forces, a point will be reached at which democratic governance becomes a possibility.
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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
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In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence.
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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy
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There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved
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There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.
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We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization
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When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
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