SOC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Émile Durkheim, Human Events, Theism

• School: St. John's University
• Department: SOC - SOCIOLOGY
• Course: SOC 1001
• Professor: Robert Mangione

Document Summary

A system of beliefs, practices and philosophical values shared by a group of people; it defines the sacred, helps explain life, and offers salvation from the problems of human existence. Profane: all empirically observable things that is things that are knowable through common, everyday experiences, like time. Sacred: things that are awe inspiring and knowable only through extraordinary experiences, feeling moved by faith. Patterns of behavior or practices that are related to the sacred. Supernaturalism: postulates the existence of non-personalized supernatural forces that can, and often do, influence human events, example is mana. A diffuse, non personalize force that acts through anything that lives or moves. Theism: is the belief in divine beings gods and goddesses who shape human affairs, gods are seen as powerful beings worthy of being worshipped. Polytheism: the belief in a number of gods. Monotheism: the belief in the existence of a single god, judaism, christianity & islam.