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Compared to the reality of everyday life, other realities appear as finite provinces of meaning, enclaves within the paramount reality marked by circumscribed meanings and modes of experience.

— Peter L. Berger

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In science as in love a concentration on technique is quite likely to lead to impotence.

Invitation to Sociology (1963)

Like [John] Wesley, the sociologist will have to confess that his parish is the world.

Invitation to Sociology (1963)

Reality is socially constructed and that the sociology of knowledge must analyse the process in which this occurs.

and Thomas Luckmann (1966)

The game of sociology goes on in a spacious playground.

Invitation to Sociology (1963)

There are very few jokes about sociologists.

Invitation to Sociology (1963)

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