Social Class And Age Flashcards
Older people are more religious because?
Disengagement from wider society
Religious socialisation
Ill health and death
Older- disengagement from wider society?
Detatched from integrating mechanisms in society like work of school
Feelings of loneliness so isolated as partners and friends die so religion supports them and acts as a comfortor
Older- religious socialisation?
Older people likely to have had greater emphasis put on religion via socialisation process
Older generation brought up with Sunday school and church influencing belief
Even if they have not been a churchgoers throughout their lives may return to beliefs as they get old due to ageing effects
Older- ill health and death?
Ageing process brings the elderly to religion as a means of comfort, coping, meaning and support as they face declining health and death and beginning to think about own funeral
Why are younger people less likely to be religion?
Pragmatic reason
Social stigma
The generation effect
The extended spiritual marketplace
Privatised belief
Secularisation and the decline of mettanarative
Young- pragmatic reason?
Leisure bigger part of life, shops, clubs and pubs are open for longer including Sundays so young people have more demands on time
Younger- social stigma?
Image of religion may be uncool causing social pressure to not be religious
Younger- the generation effect?
Each generation is become more secular than previous one
Cultural amnesia and decline in religious education as religions unpopular so not socialised
Voas and Crocett- each generation I’d half as religious as parent due to the period effect where people born in a particular time are more likely to be religious than other
Young- the expanded spiritual marketplace sociologist?
Lynch
Roof
Young- the expanded spiritual marketplace lynch?
Young people turning away from religion
More sources for young people to drew on to build religion, spiritual belief and lifestyle are finding expression outside of trad religion
Young- the expanded spiritual marketplace roof?
Due expanded spiritual market place
Can be due to immigration Islam or nrm or nam as young people exposed to media
Privatization of belief- Davie?
Believe without belonging
Young people treat religion as a private matter just because they feel they don’t belongs to a certain religion
Don’t display or involve them selves in religious organizations or in surveys
Secularisation and decline of meta narrative sociologist?
Loytard
Secularisation and decline of meta narrative loytard?
Secularisation due to decline in religion thinking or practices
Loytard suggested meta narratives like religion have lost their power and influence over peoples thoughts of the world
Yong are less religious as they don’t believe old religious explanations e.g. pick n mix
