ABSTRACT
Morals can be explained sociologically, but there is no sociological basis for making final decisions among different moral codes. If modern methods of production generate alienation, anomie, and egoism in the social world that they create, evaluation of the acceptability of these outcomes is the peculiar province of each individual. The consequences of globalization as discerned by Berger have the character of the wishful thinking of a hard-core capitalist. Globalization fosters the kind of religious and other forms of diversity by posing challenges to existing plausibility structures. Berger makes a point of separating himself and his work from the destructively excessive interpretation of social construction employed by radical post-modernists. Subjective meanings and the objective facticities that constitute social structures are two sides of the same coin, complementary terms in a dialectical process involving externalization, objectivation, and internalization. As with technology-intensive production, many aspects of bureaucratic organization are well understood by all members of a modernized society.
