Religion & social change

Question 1

MODERNIZATION

Answer 1

reduced importance of religion as society industrializes

Question 2

SECULARIZATION

Answer 2

Reduce power (social and political influence) of religion as religious involvement declines

Question 3

FUNDAMENTALISM

Answer 3

Renewed commitment to tradition religion as a reaction to secularization

Question 4

CULTURAL TRANSMISSOIN

Answer 4

passing of cultural elements (material, nonmaterial, or both) from one generation to the next

Question 5

McDONALDIZATION

Answer 5

process by which extreme efficiency and rationalization produce negative consequences in society (ex. reduced quality of products)

Question 6

SOCIAL REPRODUCTION

Answer 6

transmission of society’s values, norms, and practives including social inequality, from one generatin to the next ex. child of wealthy parents tend to wealthy as adults

Question 7

RELIGIOSITY

Answer 7

the extent to which a religious doctrine gets internalized and incorporated into a person life

Question 8

OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES

Answer 8

used when it is unethical or unfeasible to manipulate a variable of interest i.e. degree of religiosity
NO MANIPULATION OF VARIABLES

Question 9

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION

Answer 9

describes the specific religious group to which an individual identifies, which is not synonymous with living one’s life according to principles ex I am catholic but don’t attend church

Question 10

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES

Answer 10

manipulation of independent variables to measure their effect on dependent variables