SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Manifest And Latent Functions And Dysfunctions
Document Summary
Religion and science have always had conlicing ideologies with disputes ranging from creaion to the meaning of life. The aricle does science threaten religion analyzes this quesion through the perspecive of structural funcionalist. As structural funcionalist preserves society to be a very complex system, with its various parts working together to promote solidarity and stability (textbook). Although achieving stability is not possible without understanding and acceping the needs of others. The aricle illustrates this through the students who disagree with family members over religion and science yet are able to co-exist with them. Furthermore, science and religion throughout history have always been considered to be polar opposites with conlicing ideologies, in which each provides insight the other can"t. As galileo and darwin provided answering to how the natural world works, religion explains explain why the natural world works.
