SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Self-Control, Southern Sociological Society, Georg Simmel
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Founder of the area of sociology of religion. Categorize religions so they can orient themselves in the world. Social consequences of believing something that can save you. When ppl start to believe there is a higher world, than their blood nation. Family, nation > salvation religion has allowed ppl to mobilize around them and weaken them (powerful reforming power) Active (you think of yourself as a tool for god"s will) *missionary/ active asceticism which is the puritan type i. e. jehovah witnesses. Don"t give in worldly to the temptations (i. e. painting/ art) Passive (don"t wanderer actually have to do something to change the world) The tensions are so deep there isn"t very good solutions. Politics: better way and more sacred way to live in a better place= salvation religion, the king doesn"t like jesus, impersonality (state administration/ functions; you aren"t thinking of people as individuals and humanity) Aesthetics/ art (brotherly love tends to devalue art)
