SOC101 Lecture : Soc 101 Ch 13-15 everything you need
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It fails to recognize the roles that social class, power, and gender play in the development and maintenance of religion (a component that conflict theorists explain religion) Initiates incorporate the ideas of the new group into their own world. Jen: confucian virtue of possessing a benevolent and humanitarian attitude. Li: confucian desire to maintain proper relationships and rituals that enhance the life of the individual, the family, and the state y. drifting away: north american cultural values of iniviualism and person autonomy, sentiments that may reduce religious commitement. going to fundamentalist churches: they provide more personal and intense experience. social deviance = any acts that involve the violation of social norms. most powerful groups in canada get to define social deviance (ie gov, scientist, religious instit, and media) moral entrepreneurs: a person or institution that takes actions in an attempt to influence or change the development or enforcement of society s moral codes.