101551 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Sigmund Freud, Enlightened Absolutism, French Revolution

• School: UWS
• Department: University of Western Sydney
• Course: 101551
• Professor: anon

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In sociology, secularization (secularisation) is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions. The secularization thesis expresses to the idea that as societies progress, particularly through modernization and rationalization religious authority diminishes in all aspects of social life and governance. The term "secularization" may also occur in the context of the lifting of monastic restrictions from a member of the clergy. Secularization involves the historical process in which religion loses social and cultural significance. As a result of secularization the role of religion in modern societies becomes restricted. In secularized societies faith lacks cultural authority, and religious organizations have little social power. Secularization has many levels of meaning, both as a theory and as a historical process. Social theorists such as karl marx (1818 1883), sigmund freud (1856 1939), max.