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Peter Berger’s Contribution to the Pluralism of Mediating Structures

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This article examines the arguments of Peter Berger’s and Richard Neuhaus’s To Empower People for public policies to promote mediating structures. In so doing, it discusses the bearing of those arguments on our understanding of sociality, civility, and spontaneous order.

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Grosby, S. Peter Berger’s Contribution to the Pluralism of Mediating Structures. Soc 47, 193–199 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-010-9311-9

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