Religion and Social change Flashcards
1
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R as conservative force
How can religion be seen as a conservative force?
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Keeps things as they are, gives stability & social order, maintains beliefs on running of society, preserves the status quo
2
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Theories seeing religion as conservative force
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Functionalism
Feminism
Marxists
2
Q
Functionalism (Consensus)
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> Maintains social solidarity stops disintegration, through value consensus and dealing with stress.
> Agent of socialisation, maintains status quo, provides cultural basis for norms & values - legitimating them.
> e.g. Malinowski, Parsons, Durkheim
