If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

- Mary Douglas

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure …

- Mary Douglas

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

- Mary Douglas

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and…

- Mary Douglas

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

- Mary Douglas

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they sta…

- Mary Douglas

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, a…

- Mary Douglas

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

- Mary Douglas

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another v…

- Mary Douglas