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

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

Document Summary

When people live together, they come to share common sentiments and values, and these common sentiments and values form a collective conscience that is larger than any individual. Collective conscience: the common sentiments and values that people share as a result of living together. On occasion, we experience the collective conscious directly, causing us to distinguish the secular, everyday world of the profane from the religious, transcendent world of the sacred. Sacred: the religious transcendent world designate objects as symbolizing the sacred (totems), and invent set practices to connect with the sacred (rituals) The function of rituals and of religion is to reinforce social solidarity; the ritual heightens our experience of group (cid:271)elo(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g, i(cid:374)(cid:272)reases respe(cid:272)t for group i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)s, a(cid:374)d stre(cid:374)gthe(cid:374)s the (cid:271)eliefs of (cid:448)alidit(cid:455) of the group"s (cid:272)ulture. Feminist and conflict theorists have two complains about the functionalist account for religion: o(cid:448)ere(cid:373)phasizes religio(cid:374)"s role i(cid:374) (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)ohesio(cid:374) (cid:894)religio(cid:374) ofte(cid:374) incites social conflict)