RELIGION

Question 1

SUBSTANTIVE DEFINITION

Answer 1

MUST INCLUDE A BELIEF IN SOME SORT OF GOD OR SUPERNATURAL BEING

Question 2

FUNCTIONAL DEFINTIITON

Answer 2

MUST PERFORM A PSYCHOLOGICAL AOR SOCIAL FUNCTION IN SOCIETY

Question 3

CONSTRUCTIONIST DEFINTITION

Answer 3

MUST LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL AND HOW THEY DEFINE RELIGION - NO UNIVERSAL DEFINITION

Question 4

DURKHEIM CONGINTIVE FUNCTIONS

Answer 4

• DISCIPLINE
• COHESION
• VITALISATION
• EUPHORIA

Question 5

WORSLEY

Answer 5

DURKHEIM MISINTERPRETED THE ARUNTA TRIBE

Question 6

MESTROVIC

Answer 6

CANNOT BE APPLIED DUE TO FRAGMENTATION - NOT ALL BELIEFS PROVIDE THESE FUNCTIONS

Question 7

MALINOWSKI

Answer 7

SOCIAL SOLIDARITY

SOCIAL COHESION

Question 8

BELLAH

Answer 8

CIVIL RELIGION

Question 9

PARSONS

Answer 9

STRUCTURAL DIFFERENTIATION - CHURCH HAS LOST ITS FUNCTIONS OVER TIME

Question 10

BERGER

Answer 10

NO LONGER A SACRED CANOPY

Question 11

ALTHUSSER

Answer 11

RELIGION IS AN ISA

Question 12

MADURO

Answer 12

LIBERATION THEOLOGY - POOR PEOPLE SUPPORTED BY RELIGION PROMPTED SOCIAL CHANGE

Question 13

GRAMSCI

Answer 13

RELIGION CAN BE USED AS A COUNTER-HEGEMONY

Question 14

BLOCH

Answer 14

RELIGION GIVES US A ‘PRINCIPLE OF HOPE’ FOR A BETTER SOCIETY

Question 15

BILLINGS

Answer 15

SOCIAL CHANGE ISN’T ALWAYS TO DO WITH RELIGION

Question 16

DAVIE

Answer 16

RELIGION INST DECLINING, JUST CHANGING. BELIEVING WITHOUT BELONGING. HATCHING MATCHING AND DESPATCHING.

Question 17

STATS ON NUMBER OF PEOPLE IDENTIFIED AS CHRISTIAN

Answer 17

72% CHRISTIAN BUT ONLY 11% ACTIVELY GO TO CHURCH

Question 18

BRUCE

Answer 18

IF PEOPLE ARE NOT WILLING TO INVEST TIME INTO THEIR BELIEF THEN THEY ARE NOT TRUE BELIEVERS

Question 19

DAVIE - SS

Answer 19

SPIRITUAL SHOPPING - WE CREATE AN INDIVIDUALISED LIFESTYLE THAT FITS WITH OUT OWN SPIRITUAL NEEDS

Question 20

BRUCE - SS

Answer 20

SS DOESN’T FULFIL ALL FUNCTIONS OF RELIGION. NO COLLABORATIVE ELEMENT - UNDERMINES VALUE CONSENSUS

Question 21

LYON

Answer 21

RELIGION HAS BECOME DISEMBEDDED DUE TO MEDIA AND GLOBALISATION.

Question 22

HOOVER

Answer 22

DISEMBEDDING OF RELIGION IS NOT A REPLACEMENT BUT A SUPPLEMENT TO CHURCH BASED ACTIVITIES

Question 23

WILSON

Answer 23

‘DENOMINATION OR DEATH’ SECTS TURN INTO DENOMONATIONS BECAUSE THEY NEED TO START A BEUCRATIC AND HIERACHICAL STRUCTURE

Question 24

NIEBUHR

Answer 24

SECTS RARLEY LAST LONGER THAN A GENERATION

Question 25

BRUCE - CHURCH

Answer 25

MUCH HARDER FOR SECTS TO CLAIM A MONOPOLY OF TRUTH IN PM SOCIETY

Question 26

ROBERTSON

Answer 26

GOVERNMENT AND CHRUCH DISAGREEMENTS HAVE LED TO SECULARIATION

Question 27

DRANE

Answer 27

GROWTH OF NAMs IS DUE TO FAILURE OF SCIENCE AS A BELIEF SYSTEM

Question 28

GLOCK AND STARK

Answer 28

MARGINALISED PEOPLE GO TO SECTS TO COMPENSATE AND REJECT THE SOCIETY THEY FEEL ALIENATED BY

Question 29

WEBER

Answer 29

RATIONALISATION

Question 30

CASANOVA

Answer 30

EUROPEAN SECULARIATAION IS AN ANOMOLY MANY SOCIETIES ARE STILL INHERENTLY THEOCRACTIC

Question 31

BERGER - PLUARLISM

Answer 31

NO LONGER ONE COMMON FAITH

Question 32

STARK AND BAINBRIDGE

Answer 32

RELIGIOUS MARKET THEORY

Question 33

NORRIS AND INGLEHART

Answer 33

DIFFERING IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION IN DIFFERENT SOCIETIES IS NOT ABOUT CHOICE BUT ABOUT EXSTENTENTIAL SECURITY