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Peter L. Berger

Data de nascimento: 17. Março 1929
Data de falecimento: 27. Junho 2017
Outros nomes: पीटर बर्गर, Питер Л. Бергер, Πίτερ Μπέργκερ, بيتر بيرغر, پیتر برقر

Peter Ludwig Berger foi um sociólogo e teólogo luterano austro-americano, conhecido por sua obra "A Construção Social da Realidade" publicada em co-autoria com Thomas Luckmann.

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„Two societies confronting each other with conflicting universes will both develop conceptual machineries designed to maintain their respective universes. From the point of view of intrinsic plausibility the two forms of conceptualization may seem to the outside observer to offer little choice.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

1991; 126
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

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

„The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground.“

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— Peter L. Berger

Fonte: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 29

„The sensible person reads the sociological journals mainly for the book reviews and the obituaries, and goes to sociological meetings only if he is looking for a job or has other intrigues to carry on.“

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— Peter L. Berger

Fonte: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1

„At least within our own consciousness, the past is malleable and flexible, constantly changing as our recollection reinterprets and re-explains what has happened.“

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— Peter L. Berger

Fonte: Invitation to Sociology (1963), p. 57 ; Cited in: Robert Benjamin Smith, ‎Peter K. Manning (1982), Qualitative methods. p. 64

„The present volume is intended as a systematic, theoretical treatise in the sociology of knowledge. It is not intended, therefore, to give a historical survey of the development of this discipline, or to engage in exegesis of various figures in this or other developments in sociological theory, or even to show how a synthesis may be achieved between several of these figures and developments. Nor is there any polemic intent here. Critical comments on other theoretical positions have been introduced (not in the text, but in the Notes) only where they may serve to clarify the present argument.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

Fonte: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 7; Lead paragraph of preface

„Without proposing an evolutionary scheme for such types, it is safe to say that mythology represents the most archaic form of universe-maintenance, as indeed it represents the most archaic form of legitimation generally.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

1991; 127-8
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966

„Specific procedures of universe-maintenance become necessary when the symbolic universe has become a problem. As long as this is not the case, the symbolic universe is self-maintaining, that is, self-legitimating by the sheer facticity of its objective existence in the society in question.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

1991; 123
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966

„The second level of legitimation contains theoretical propositions in a rudimentary form. Here may be found various explanatory schemes relating sets of objective meanings. These schemes are highly pragmatic, directly related to concrete actions. Proverbs, moral maxims and wise sayings are common on this level. Here, too, belong legends and folk tales, frequently transmitted in poetic forms.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

1991; 112
The Social Construction of Reality, 1966

„Society determines how long and in what manner the individual organism shall live. This determination may be institutionally programmed in the operation of social controls, as in the institution of law. Society can maim and kill. Indeed, it is in its power over life and death that it manifests its ultimate control over the individual.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

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

„The most important gain is that each [member of society] will be able to predict the other’s actions. Concomitantly, the interaction of both becomes predictable… Many actions are possible on a low level of attention. Each action of one is no longer a source of astonishment and potential danger to the other.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

Fonte: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 57

„A social world [is] a comprehensive and given reality confronting the individual in a manner analogous to the reality of the natural world… In early phases of socialization the child is quite incapable of distinguishing between the objectivity of natural phenomena and the objectivity of the social formations… The objective reality of institutions is not diminished if the individual does not understand their purpose or their mode of operation…He must ‘go out’ and learn about them, just as he must learn about nature.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

Fonte: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 59-61

„Legitimation as a process is best described as a 'second-order' objectivation of meaning. Legitimation produces new meanings that serve to integrate the meanings already attached to disparate institutional processes. The function of legitimation is to make objectively available and subjectively plausible the 'first-order' objectivations that have been institutionalized.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

Fonte: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 92 (1991; 110)

„The social distribution of knowledge thus begins with the simple fact that I do not know everything known to my fellowmen, and vice versa, and culminates in exceedingly complex and esoteric systems of expertise. Knowledge of how the socially available stock of knowledge is distributed, at least in outline, is an important element of that same stock of knowledge.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

Fonte: The Social Construction of Reality, 1966, p. 46

„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

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

„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, livro The Social Construction of Reality

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

„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

Fonte: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1

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

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— Peter L. Berger

Fonte: Invitation to Sociology (1963), Chapter 1

„Society… directly penetrates the organism in its functioning, most importantly in respect to sexuality and nutrition. While both sexuality and nutrition are grounded in biological drives, these drives are extremely plastic in the human animal. Man is driven by his biological constitution to seek sexual release and nourishment. But his biological constitution does not tell him where he should seek sexual release and what he should eat.“

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— Peter L. Berger, livro The Social Construction of Reality

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

„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, livro The Social Construction of Reality

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

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