Fuctionalism (Religion)

Question 1

What do functionalists believe about religion?

Answer 1

Believe that religion serves the functio of a ‘social glue’ that binds cultures together and transmits shared norms and values that prevent anomie.

Question 2

Durkheim

role of religion in society

Answer 2

Argued that religion had a role in building social solidarity. He also found that religion teaches a distiction between the sacred and the profane

• Suggested that all societies work with this distinction and that particular objects come to hold a sacred symbolic significance for people.