Religion and Gender

Question 1

Why women are more religious

Answer 1

• socialisation, motherhood and femininity
• greater life expectancy
• status frustration
• deprivation
• risk theory

Question 2

Reasons for the declining participation amiunst women

Answer 2

• the women’s movement and feminisation
• changing roles of women
• changing families and relationships

Question 3

Reasons ethnic minorities are more religious

Answer 3

• community identity and cultural defence
• social deprivation
• social identity
• family

Question 4

Why young people are less religious

Answer 4

• religion isn’t appealing
• spiritual choice
• individualisation
• privatisation
• decline in meta-narratives
• secularisation
• more likely to seek support in peers

Question 5

Why older people are more religious

Answer 5

• disengagement
• the generational effect
• ageing effect
• ill-health and death
• religious socialsation

Question 6

Class and religion

Answer 6

patterns of class and religion has changed over time
- marxism= middle class, in order to maintain power- working class, to cope with oppression
- Weber- working class, appeal due to benefits
- Maduro- working class, fight oppression