The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

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• Pierre Bourdieu:

  I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.

• Pierre Bourdieu:

  The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influence

• Peter L. Berger:

  But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the

• Peter L. Berger:

  Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand

• Peter L. Berger:

  Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which per

• Peter L. Berger:

  I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was

• Peter L. Berger:

  I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling

• Peter L. Berger:

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

• Peter L. Berger:

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

• Peter L. Berger:

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