SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Fundamentalism, Social Inequality
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Religion used to be the main organization of formal knowledge and the most important agent of socialization apart from family, whereas today this has been replaced by education. Durkheim believed that when people live together, they share common sentiments and values, and that these form a collective conscience that is larger than the individual is. Collective conscience: the common sentiments and values that people share as a result of living together. Rituals: set practices designed to connect people to the sacred. Con ict and feminist theorists believe two elements: It overemphasizes religion"s role in maintaining social cohesion. It ignores the fact that when religion does increase social cohesion, it often reinforces social inequality. Routinization of charisma: weber"s term for the transformation of diving enlightenment into a permanent feature of everyday life; it involves turning religious inspiration into a stable social institution with de ned roles. Church: a bureaucratic religion organization that has accommodated itself to mainstream society and culture.
