Occupation: Sociologist Birth: March 17, 1929
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 ec….
If you say simply that pressures toward democracy are created by the market, I would say yes.
The human organism is thus still developing biologically while already standing in a relationship to its environmont. In other words, the process of ….
On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man….
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.
There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mai….
Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values….
Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and tran….
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 ….
I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secula….
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.
Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as a….
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 demo….
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.
Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is ….
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….
An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity bas….
There are times in history when the dark drums of God can barely be heard amid the noises of this world. Then it is only in moments of silence, which….
In science, as in love, a concentration on technique is likely to lead to impotence..
In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period..