functionalists Flashcards
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View
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creates and maintains value consensus, social order and solidarity
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Durkheim
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Religion acts as a constraining force, through religious worship, the collective conscience is imprinted on the individual: they literally ‘feel’ the weight of the community on them
-religion reinforces a sense of belonging and shared identity to society
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Malinowski
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Religion helps individuals to deal with the psychological stresses which occur in times of social change, such as births, marriages and deaths. religion can ‘make sense’ of death for example
4
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Parsons
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- religion maintains social order
- promotes value cosensus: many legal systems are based on religious morals for exmaple
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Critics
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- religion promotes social change
- secularisation means religion performs less functions