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An 8 page comparison of Kathleen Berger's The Developing Person Through the Life Span and Marjorie Taylor's Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them. These two very different books each address the way that human personality develops. Berger takes a wide perspective that encompasses the way human beings develop over the course of a lifetime. Taylor's book, on the other hand, has a narrow focus on one particular aspect of childhood development, i.e. the way children use fantasy and create imaginary companions. While these books are, of course, very different due to these differences in perspective, they also have similarities in content, which make them complementary in many respects. No additional sources cited.
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of religion (Berger v). This approach does not include, either explicitly or implied, any theological material. Rather then author limits his argument to strictly a sociological perspect!ive. The first
chapter of this work, "Religion and World Construction," demonstrates for the sociology student where religion fits into an overall model of how human society originated. This perspective aids the student
in "seeing" society with a sociologists eyes, that is, it shows institutions, such as religion, from a viewpoint that demonstrates how religion functions in society, aiding humanity to construct meaningful
worldviews. Berger begins this discussion by pointing out that every human society is an exercise in world-building (3). Although he immediately asserts that religion has a distinctive place in
this exercise, he asserts that a meaningful discussion of that place requires that the reader first understand that the "world-building efficacy of society must be explicated" and that this will
aid the reader in understanding society in dialectic terms (3). He then goes on to explain the reciprocal nature that makes up the relationship of soc!iety to humanity. "Society is
a product of man...(yet) man is a product of society" (3). In other words, society would not exist without people. This is obvious. However, Berger also points out that
it is society that forms us as individuals. "Man cannot exist apart from society" (3). Without other people to imitate, a young human would not learn language, customs, or how
to conceive of himself as a human being. He was would be human?if he survived?but he would be an animal without human contact. The fundamental dialectic process of society consists
of three moments, or steps?externalization, objectivation, and internalization (4). Externalization refers to the actions of the person that are outgoing into the world; objectivation is when the person obtains
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