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"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."
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"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful."

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

"Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic."

"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."

"The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture."

"It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term."

"One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism."

"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."

"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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