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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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Peter L Berger Quotes)
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 (Peter L Berger Quotes)
The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance (Peter L Berger Quotes)
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic. (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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. (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 Quotes)
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people. (Peter L Berger Quotes)
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture. (Peter L Berger Quotes)
An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology. (Peter L Berger Quotes)
Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom. (Peter L Berger Quotes)
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes (Peter L Berger Quotes)
If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 Quotes)
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state (Peter L Berger Quotes)
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful (Peter L Berger Quotes)
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture (Peter L Berger Quotes)
To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If the cultural elite has its way, the U. S. Will be much more like Europe (Peter L Berger Quotes)
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