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Peter L. Berger

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A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.


— Peter L. Berger


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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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If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.


— Peter L. Berger


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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.


— Peter L. Berger


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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 ways.


— Peter L. Berger


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If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.


— Peter L. Berger


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In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.


— Peter L. Berger


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It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term.


— Peter L. Berger


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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.


— Peter L. Berger


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One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.


— Peter L. Berger


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About Peter L. Berger






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Likewise in The Desecularization of the World he cites both Western academia and Western Europe itself as exceptions to the triumphant desecularization hypothesis: these cultures have remained highly secularized despite the resurgence of religion in the rest of the world. Peter Ludwig Berger (March 17 1929) is an Austrian-born American sociologist known for his work in the sociology of religion society and the individual study of modernization and his theoretical contributions. In 2010 he was awarded the Dr.

He is best known for his book co-authored with Thomas Luckmann The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge (New York 1966) which is considered one of the most influential texts in the sociology of knowledge and played a central role in the development of social constructionism despite the critiques he has received. He has studied sociology writing several works and he has taught his students at Boston University and Rutgers University.

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