SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pwn, Spiritualism, Structural Functionalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Liam Kilmurray

Document Summary

Religion: a system of beliefs, symbols, and rituals, based on some sacred or supernatural realm, that guides human behavior, gives meaning to life, an unites believers into a community (durkheim) Second definition: (more inclusive of all dimensions of religion): he individual and social experience of the scared manifested in mythology, ritual, and ethos and integrated into a community or an organization (swenson) Religion: a social institution composed of a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. Spirituality: concern with the sacred often individual, not formal. Visions, trancing, dancing, sacred items and sacred spaces for worship. Durkheim argued that society worships a projection of its pwn social structure. Religion provides an intermediate basis for social solidarity. What, then are the commonalities between science and religion. Both are a general class of epistemological systems. Drawing from durkheim and malinowski, many current structural functionalist argues that religions: Theme: on micro-levels, religion gives meaning to everyday life.