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.

East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

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

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.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

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.