Peter Berger on Modernization and Modernity: An Unvarnished Overview

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Functional equivalents of the Protestant Ethic -- The Capitalist Revolution and The Managerial Revolution -- Social mobility -- Upward structural mobility -- Rates of mobility -- Education and social mobility -- Individual mobility: a zero-sum game -- 14. What has been done? -- 15. Styles of consciousness and pluralism -- Identity formation -- Religious faith -- 16. Reservations about pluralism -- Modernization and the once taken-for-granted -- Internal eccentricities and vulnerability -- 17. The complexity of modern consciousness -- Immiseration revisited -- Material practice -- 18. The continuing influence of Weber -- Free will -- Social roles -- Sociology: seeing through or seeing? -- The strength of sociological determinism -- Conceptual elusiveness of free will -- Invitation to sociology and determinism again -- 19. Modernization augmented -- Variability of modernization and of modern roles -- Anticipating ideologies -- Primacy of technology-intensive production -- Hypothetical process of modernization -- The role of political bureaucracies -- Third World bureaucracies -- Modernization and disruption through capitalist and socialist endeavors -- Collisions of consciousness -- Many forms of rationality -- Traditional modes of reality in the Third World -- Homelessness in perspective -- 20. Modernity and its discontents: a suitably ironic closing -- Relativism, fundamentalism, and a middle ground -- Insights of sociological tourism -- Bibliography -- Index