Types Of Cult+ Why Prople Join Sect

Question 1

Sects

Answer 1

World rejecting
Reject the secular world as corrupt
Either abandoned the world, or attempt to transform it
An example of this is Unification Church commonly known as the moonies
Rejecting materialism and imposing a non-materialistic lifestyle on its followers

Question 2

Denominations

Answer 2

World accommodating
Neither except the values and goals of wider society, and they do not entirely reject society
Exist on the margins of established churches

Question 3

Cults

Answer 3

World affirming
Except the values and goals of wider society, but aim to provide a new means to achieve these
Human beings are seem to have enormous, physical, mental and spiritual potential
Involve themselves in some financial investment such as Scientology

Question 4

Name the four reasons why people choose to join sects

Answer 4

Marginalisation
Relative deprivation
Social change
Status frustration

Question 5

Ao1 marginalisation

Answer 5

Weber argue that sects are the most likely to emerge amongst the poor
Such groups may develop a theodicy of dispriviledge this is a religious set of ideas, which explains why they are in that position
For example, if a group believes that they chosen people of god They believe it is a test

Question 6

Ao3 marginalisation

Answer 6

However, since the 1960s world rejecting new religious movements, such as the Moonies have recruited many from the affluent group group of educated, young, middle-class, whites, rather than the poor marginalised groups

Question 7

Ao1
Relative deprivation

Answer 7

Sects also attract the members of class ,middle class may feel deprived compared to the other groups
Not only this, they may feel socially deprived, ethically deprived and organismic deprived

Socially deprived is from the lack of power and status. An example of a alternative source of satisfaction is jenovah witness.

Organismic deprivation is experienced by those who suffer ill health people may tend to sects or use drugs or alcohol as an alternative

Question 8

Ao3 relative deprivation

Answer 8

post-modernist would argue that this argument lacks contemporary relevance
In postmodern Society old barriers, like social class or ethnicity, and no longer relevant. Many people are not likely to feel relatively deprived.

Question 9

Ao1 social change

Answer 9

Such change may create what they can refer to as anomie this is normlessness
This is because rapid change undermines traditional norms and values
Wilson argues that the popularity of world accommodating groups was a reaction to anxieties created by industrialisation and urbanisation

Question 10

Ao3 social change

Answer 10

Rather than joining sects as a response to social change a popular response today is to join a fundamentalist movement

Question 11

Ao1
Status frustration

Answer 11

Status frustration means that people feel unhappy about the position they find themselves in society
This is associated mainly with young people when they are going from childhood to adulthood
This is why new movements appeal to young people Beacuse it offers them an identity

Question 12

Ao3 status frustration

Answer 12

These are usually short-lived, and that new religious movement involve only a small proportion of the population for a short period of their lives