SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stereotype Threat, Economic Inequality, Literacy Test
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Hockey is canada"s national religion may meet durkheim"s definition of a. When people live together, they come to share common sentiments and values. Criticisms by conflict and feminist theorists: overemphasizes religion"s role in maintaining social cohesion (often incites social conflict) and ignores the fact that when religion does increase social cohesion, it often reinforces social inequality. Marx called religion the opium of the people . The major world religions have traditionally placed women in a subordinate position (ex. the new testament states that women shouldn"t speak in church, the. Jewish prayer book sidur, the koran says to beat women who are disloyal) Christianity promoted the view that the almighty ordains class inequality, promising rewards to the lowly in the afterlife. Hindu scriptures have a caste system and warn that people who attempt to achieve upward mobility will be reincarnated as animals. Koran says that social inequality is due to the will of allah.
