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Peter L. Berger

Peter Ludwig Berger (March 17, 1929 – June 27, 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theoretical contributions to sociological theory.

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If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

Example, Ifs, Nothing, Serve, Stills

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

Democracy, Empirical, Philosophical, Principle, Say, Thinking

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

Economic, Inefficiency, Intrinsic, Linkage, Linkages, Socialism

India is the most religious country in the world, Sweden is the most secular country in the world, and America is a country of Indians ruled by Swedes.

America, Country, Indians, Religious, Secular, Sweden

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.

Democracy, Economy, Let, Market Economy, Relationship

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 takes place in an interrelationship with an environment. (. . . ) From the moment of birth, man's organismic development, and indeed a large part of his biological being as such, are subjected to continuing socially determined interference.

Becoming, Body, Determined, Man, Men, Takes

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.

Culture, Disappear, Economy, Hardship, Jobs, Steel

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

Culture, Economic Globalization, Negative, Side, Wipes

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Acute, Interesting, Meaning, Strong, Stronger, Suffering

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

Cultural, Culture, Global, Globalization, Phenomenon

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.

Cities, City, Disappear, Replied, Rumor, Years

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 both includes and transcends man.

Attitude, Man, Men, Order, Towards

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.

Degrees, Governance, Possibility, Reached, Socialist Economy

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

Advocate, Capitalism, Hayek, Periods, Present

An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.

Long, Modern, Optimal, Oriented, Provides, Technology

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.

Broad, Issues, Mean, Relationship, Simple, Work

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

Beliefs, Different, Elements, Lines, People

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

Economy, Escaping, Individual, Market, State

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

Democracy, Forces, Long, Perhaps, Running

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

Christian, Humanism, Movement, Reacting, Reactive, Secular

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