SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Richard Dawkins, Operationalization, Bourgeoisie
22 Apr 2016
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Differences between non-believers and those who are faithful. Explain how theorists such as marx, durkheim, and weber perceived religion. Operationalize religiosity: operationalization is a process where we make practical definitions of abstract concepts. Outline levels of personal religiosity in canada. A religion of meaning for interpreting the world. It is a unified system of beliefs with a supernatural referent. Flexibility in terms of what a religion is. By contrast, humanist perspectives such as communism are human centred. Humanists maintain that life has no meaning; we have to give it meaning : we have to ask ourselves why we"re here and what is the best way to use our time. When we study religion from a sociological standpoint, we do so scientifically. We develop theories and hypotheses test them with rigorous scientific methods. A professor from the university of lethbridge claims that alberta is not the bible belt of canada. The bible belt in canada is in the atlantic.
