Religous Beliefs And Social Stability

Question 1

Functionalist views

Answer 1

Value consensus

Question 2

Emile Durkheim

Answer 2

Durkheim argued that religion helped create social stability by creating a collective conscience (norm and values shared by many)

Question 3

Malinowski

Answer 3

Malinowski supported Durkheim through a study of the religious rituals of the Trobriand Islanders

Question 4

Marxist views

Answer 4

Opiate of the masses

Question 5

Karl Marx

Answer 5

Religion is used to brainwash the working class into expecting and ignoring the inequality

Question 6

Althusser

Answer 6

Introduced the idea of the ideological state apparatus. It’s purpose was to gain ideological control and keep the working class at the bottom