Beliefs- functionalism Flashcards

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What does Durkiem say sacred means

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Ideas that have fixed themselves on material objects

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What does Durkhiem say religion enforces/maintain

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Social order
Collective conscience

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What does Durkhiem say religion is based on

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The division between the ordinary and profane

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What does Malinowski say religion promotes

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Social norms
Values
Social solidarity

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How does religion help deal with emotional crisis according to Malinowski

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With ceremonies
E.g funerals

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What does Parsons say that religion creates

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Secondary socialisation

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How does Parsons say religion creates secondary socialisation

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Provides guidelines for human actions
E.g 10 commandments ‘thou shall not kill’

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What does ‘civil religion’ mean

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A faith in Americanism that which unites people regardless of their own religions

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What did Shils and young say the coronation created

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Civil religion

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What did Marx say about religion

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Religion is an opiate that dulls the pain of alienation
Religion is an ISA

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What does Marx say religion enables the upper class to do

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Allows them to maintain their position as it was given by God

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What example of revolutionary change did Engles use to say that religion can play a dual character

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Early Christian sects opposing Roman rule and compared them to communist and socialist political movements

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How does religion play a dual character according to Bloch

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Religion is the expression of ‘the principle of hope’- our dreams of a better life that contain images of utopia

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What did Billings study show

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The church can aid or prohibit social change
Miners were supported by the church, miners weren’t

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What did Gramsci say religion can play

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A counter hegemony as religion does not always have to pass on dominant ideas

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What did Maduro say religion can do

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Liberation theology