ABSTRACT
The consequences of doing technology-intensive work in a modernized workplace will result in creation of people with the same or similar characteristics formed by working in the same kinds of institutional environments. The presentation of consequences of doing technology-intensive labor are constant through the later years in Berger's career when he becomes a cheerleader for capitalism in promoting modernization. Berger's contribution to the sociology of knowledge is quite real, and if we divest ourselves of the protective relevance structure of the sociologist, his analysis may be judged as troubling. He has clearly shown us that "the sociology of knowledge must concern itself with everything that passes for 'knowledge' in a society". Understanding the modernized world as rendered by Berger seems badly in need of application of the best known concepts from Durkheim's early work, especially anomie, egoism, and organic solidarity. Karl Marx's multifaceted concept alienation is also quite useful.
