SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Caitlyn Jenner, Kris Jenner, Subculture
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Functionalist approach to culture but not just straightforward reflection. Societies create collective representations to bind them together. Collective consciousness: shared beliefs and understandings of a people. Any identifiable social group will develop collective representations through which it demonstrates its collective solidarity to itself and others pg. 54: we can study social groups by studying how they represent themselves. Organic solidarity: the need for people to exchange with one another. Every society must have some kind of collective representation, some tie that demonstrates to the society"s members their undoubted connection to one another. Religion was the most fundamental bond among people of earlier times. Human institution, such as religion, responds to profound human need. Analysis rested on four key ideas: collective representation, distinction between the sacred and the profane, the origins of the sacred, the social consequences of religion. Collective representation: religion provides basis for all thinking. Religion and categories of thinking are collective representations which express collective realities .
