Institutions Provide Procedures Through Which Human Conduct Is Patterned, Compelled To Go, In Grooves Deemed Desirable By Society. And This Trick Is Performed By Making These Grooves Appear To The Individual As The Only Possible Ones.

-Peter L. Berger

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Institutions Provide Procedures Through Which Human Conduct

Peter L. Berger

Institutions Provide Procedures Through Which Human Conduct Is Patterned, Compelled To Go, In Grooves Deemed Desirable By Society. And This Trick Is Performed By Making These Grooves Appear To The Individual As The Only Possible Ones.

Topic

Individual

Institutions

Procedures

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 Economy.

Philosophical

Thinking

Democracy