SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Class Consciousness, Move Away, Mass Communication
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All religions have a set of beliefs they claim to be significant and valid. Substantive definitions focus on what religion is: e. g. , belief in a higher being and. Functional definition (durkheim) focus on what religion does; how religion connects supernatural forces people to one another. Still an important force in modern world despite enlightenment and secularization of most domains of life. Founders of sociology did not expect religion to survive in modern (industrial, scientific) world. Enlightenment thinkers thought human progress moved away from belief and superstition towards rational thinking based on empirical evidence. Sociologists today interested how religious beliefs affect different aspects of life, like work, family, education and politics. Secularization: the decline in political and social importance of membership in a traditional religious denomination. Durkheim saw secularization as a growth in tolerant diversity. Marx saw it as potentially signalling the growth of class consciousness. Secularization has meant reduced discrimination for or against people on the basis of their religion.
