SOCI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Social Capital, Stephanie Coontz, Kinship
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Symbolic interactionism: everything that exists has been given meaning. When groups perform rituals together, it reinforces what they (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) they"re supposed to a(cid:272)t. you lear(cid:374) ho(cid:449) to (cid:271)e religious. Gro(cid:449)i(cid:374)g up i(cid:374) a religious ho(cid:373)e (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s you"ll (cid:271)e so(cid:272)ialized i(cid:374) a religious setti(cid:374)g. so(cid:373)e religio(cid:374)s tea(cid:272)h you how to understand yourself. Social context changes the way religion affects us. Secularization: society becoming more scientific and logical means religious beliefs would become less important. Early sociologists believes that this would occur as more phenomena became explained scientifically. Religion in america has changed (lost some institutional power), but is not going away. It"s illegal to (cid:373)ake la(cid:449)s (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) a belief system. Family is a cultural universal- all societies have it. Governmental definition (two or more related people living in a household) vs so(cid:272)iologist"s u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g of (cid:449)hat (cid:373)akes a fa(cid:373)ily (cid:894)(cid:271)o(cid:374)ds- emotional, biological, etc. Kinship networks- families of choice/ social bonds with people.
