Peter L. Berger citations (45 citations, Page 2)

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“We have as many lives as we have points of view.”

Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 71

“The child does not internalize the world of his significant others as one of many possible worlds… It is for this reason that the world internalized in primary socialization is so much more firmly entrenched in consciousness than worlds internalized in secondary socialization…. Secondary socialization is the internalization of institutional or institution-based ‘sub worlds’… The roles of secondary socialization carry a high degree of anonymity… The same knowledge taught by one teacher could also be taught by another… The institutional distribution of tasks between primary and secondary socialization varies with the complexity of the social distribution of knowledge”

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Peter L. Berger livre The Social Construction of Reality

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 129-147

“Perhaps some little boys consumed with curiosity to watch their maiden aunts in the bathroom later become inveterate sociologists. This is quite uninteresting. What interests us is the curiosity that grips any sociologist in front of a closed door behind which there are human voices.”

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Peter L. Berger

Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1

“Social order is a human product, or more precisely, an ongoing human production.”

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Peter L. Berger livre The Social Construction of Reality

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 52

“We are not interested in excommunicating anyone. The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground. We are just describing a little more closely those we would like to tempt to join our game.”

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Peter L. Berger

Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1

“Like [John] Wesley, the sociologist will have to confess that his parish is the world.”

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Peter L. Berger

Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1

“A society’s stock of knowledge is structured in terms of what is generally relevant and what is relevant only to specific roles… the social distribution of knowledge entails a dichotomization in terms of general and role-specific relevance… because of the division of labor, role-specific knowledge will grow at a faster rate than generally relevant and accessible knowledge… The increasing number and complexity of [the resulting] sub universes [of specialized knowledge] make them increasingly inaccessible to outsiders.”

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Peter L. Berger livre The Social Construction of Reality

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p.77-87

“In science as in love a concentration on technique is quite likely to lead to impotence.”

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Peter L. Berger

Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1

“The basic contentions of the argument of this book are implicit in its title and sub-title, namely, that reality is socially constructed and that the sociology of knowledge must analyse the process in which this occurs.”

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Peter L. Berger livre The Social Construction of Reality

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 1 (1999; 13)

“There are very few jokes about sociologists.”

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Peter L. Berger

Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 11

“It will be enough, for our purposes, to define 'reality' as a quality appertaining to phenomena that we recognize as having a being independent of our own volition (we cannot 'wish them away'), and to define 'knowledge' as the certainty that phenomena are real and that they possess specific characteristics.”

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Peter L. Berger livre The Social Construction of Reality

Source: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 1 (1999; 13)

“Life-expectancies of lower-class and upper-class [vary] …society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live…”

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Peter L. Berger livre The Social Construction of Reality

1991, p. 202
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966

“An individual is generally ready to admit that he is ignorant of periods in the past or places on the other side of the globe. But he is much less likely to admit ignorance of his own period and his own place, especially if he is an intellectual. Everyone, of course, knows about his own society. Most of what he knows, however, is what Alfred Schultz has aptly called “recipe knowledge”—just enough to get him through his essential transactions in social life. Intellectuals have a particular variety of “recipe knowledge”; they know just enough to be able to get through their dealings with other intellectuals. There is a “recipe knowledge” for dealing with modernity in intellectual circles; the individual must be able to reproduce a small number of stock phrases and interpretive schemes, to apply them in “analysis” or “criticism” of new things that come up in discussion, and thereby to authenticate his participation in what has been collectively been defined as reality in these circles. Statistically speaking, the scientific validity of this intellectuals’ “recipe knowledge” is roughly random.”

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Peter L. Berger

Source: The Homeless Mind: Modernization and Consciousness (1973), pp. 4-5

“At a certain age children are greatly intrigued by the possibility of locating themselves on a map. It appears strange that one's familiar life should actually have all occurred in an area delineated by a set of quite impersonal (and hitherto unfamiliar) coordinates on the surface of the map. The child's exclamations of "I was there" and "I am here right now" betray the astonishment that the place of last summer's vacation, a place marked in memory by such sharply personal events as the ownership of one's first dog or the secret assembling of a collection of worms, should have specific latitudes and longitudes devised by strangers to one's dog, one's worms, and oneself. This locating of oneself in configurations conceived by strangers is one of the important aspects of what, perhaps euphemistically, is called "growing up". One participates in the real world of grown-ups by having an address. The child who only recently might have mailed a letter addressed "To my Granddaddy" now informs a fellow worm-collector of his exact address – street, town, state and all – and finds his tentative allegiance to the grown-up world view dramatically legitimated by the arrival of the letter.”

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Peter L. Berger

Source: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 81

“An intrinsic problem, similar to the one we discussed in connexion with tradition in general, presents itself with the process of transmission of the symbolic universe from one generation to another. Socialization is never completely successful. Some individuals 'inhabit' the transmitted universe more definitely than others.”

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Peter L. Berger livre The Social Construction of Reality

1991; 124
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966

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