SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Symbolic Interactionism, Totem, Commodification
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2 9 / 0 7 / 2 0 1 3 | 1. Sociologists view religion as one of many products of social life, constructed by humanity, that play an important role in society"s functioning . Sociologists ask how religion has managed to survive despite the many economic, scientific, social, and cultural developments that have undermined blind faith. Religion fluctuates all the time, and sociologists wonder how religion is still alive now with the advances in technology. Like every other institutions in the time of modernization, it has gone through 3 things. Within the passage of centuries, religious institutions have continuously been limited in their social functions. Religions have become smaller in human life, and the functions of it has been basically. Religions in modern countries play no role in the economy, only a small role (we don"t allow them to play a large role) in education and a variable role in family life.
