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297: 71:. For Berger, the relation between plausibility structure and social "world" is dialectical, the one supporting the other which, in turn, can react back upon the first. Social arrangements may help, say, a certain religious world appear self-evident. This religious outlook may then help to shape the arrangements that contributed to its rise. 79:
Berger was particularly concerned with the loss of plausibility of the sacred in a modernist/postmodern world. Berger considered that history "constructs and deconstructs plausibility structures", and that the plurality of modern social worlds was "an important cause of the diminishing plausibility
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are the sociocultural contexts for systems of meaning within which these meanings make sense, or are made plausible. Beliefs and meanings held by individuals and groups are supported by, and embedded in, sociocultural institutions and processes.
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Critics have argued that Berger pays too much attention to discourse analysis and not enough to the institutional frameworks that continue to support religious belief.
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in maintaining one's plausibility structures, as well as the erosion of the modernist trend of secularization that took place with
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The Sacred Canopy - Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion
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Berger may also underestimate the role of self-selected
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Plausibility
Biological plausibility
sociology
sociological study of religion
Peter L. Berger
Karl Marx
G. H. Mead
Alfred Schutz
reference groups
postmodernism
Lifeworld
Base and superstructure
Sociology of knowledge
Episteme
Belief revision
"Peter Berger's the Homeless Mind thesis"
the original
Peter L. Berger
Thomas Luckmann
ISBN
0-8308-2779-X
PLAUSIBILITY
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sociology
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