SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Church Attendance, Protestant Work Ethic, Social Inequality

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

William james observed region is the common human response to the fact that we all stand at the edge of an abyss. Helps cope with fact that all must die and that. Motivation for religion maybe psychological james argued content and intensity of relgiiuys beliefs and the form and frequency of religion practices are in uenced by the structure of society a person place in it. Scope of religious authority has declines and religion governs fewer aspects of life than it used to. Expect that religion can help deal with only a restricted range spiritual issues. Medical and criminal sector have had religious authority decline. Religion used to be the main purveyor of formal knowledge and the most important agent of socialization apart from the family. Education system main for formal knowledge and the most important agent of socialization. Partial displacement of religion by education system that justi es our analyzing religion and education side by side.