Functionalist Flashcards
1
Q
Durkheim
A
Totemism (worshipping their own community - Arunta tribe)
Sacred VS Profane objects
Collective consciousness
2
Q
Bellah
A
Civil Religion - religion unifies a multi-faith society and sacrilises American way of life
3
Q
Criticisms of Durkheim and Bellah
A
Includes things we wouldn’t necessarily consider as religious & dysfunctional
Birnbaum - maintains false class consciousness
4
Q
Malinowski
A
psychological functions - promotes social solidarity
Trobiand Islanders
‘lagoon magic’
5
Q
Parsons
A
- religion creates/legitimates society’s central values through secondary socialisation
- primary source of meaning eg. Ten Commandments
