ABSTRACT
Modernization and modernity have become preoccupations with Berger in much of his writing and research, The Homeless Mind provides useful, even if only occasional thematizing instances for various parts of our ongoing discussion. Using the thoroughly informative theoretical, substantive, and methodological material that constitutes a sociologist's professional background, he must adopt a point of view or relevance structure that pushes value judgments aside in favor of information. Max Weber is the classical theorist whose work has had the greatest influence on Berger, especially in terms of the rationalization of social systems. In The Capitalist Revolution, it was said that the industrial capitalism and industrial socialism are modes of economic organization that Berger construes as "twin manifestations of modernity". In the social sciences, moreover, modernity has most often been treated as a consequence of modernization, or a concept that stands in a reciprocal relationship with modernization. Berger defines modernization as "the institutional concomitants of technologically induced economic growth".
