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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.

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Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

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

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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.

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We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

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But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

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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.

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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 other ways.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Sociologist

Born: March 17th, 1929

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