SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Early Modern Europe, Collective Effervescence, Social Inequality
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Religion offers believers immortality, the promise of better times to come, and the security of benevolent spirits who watch over believers. It provides meaning and purpose in a world that would otherwise seem cruel and senseless. Institutions medicine, psychiatric, criminal justice, education, and so forth have grown in importance as the scope of religion authority has declined. The stanley cup playoffs generate a sense of what durkheim would have called collective effervescence . That is, the stanley cup finals excite us by making us feel part of something larger than us: the montreal canadiens, the edmonton oilers, the toronto. Maple leaves, the institution of canadian hockey, the spirit of canada itself. Durkheim said that when people live together, they come to share common sentiments and values. These common sentiments and values form a collective conscience that is larger than any individual is. Collective conscience: the common sentiments and values that people share as a result of living together.
