SOC 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lord Voldemort, Immanence, Consumerism
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Rise of secular bureaucracy: from enchantments (gods immanent, manipulable, manipulate with spells. Animous religions where created by small primitive groups: to rationality, can be either right or wrong, calculating consequence rather than just following traditions, less they pray more they plant. 1/30: focus of ritual attention on celebrities more than totens, sacred objects of organic solidarity i. e, going to a concert seeing beyonce vs going with a religious group for prayer ritual that it is not religious. Teen religiosity: each gen is less religious, neither experimenting nor turned off, but disengaged instead, disgust with hard sells leave them exceeding parents in detachment. Choice participation: more diverse= less religious, more options = less religious. Individual choices goes up and group ties goes down: withdrawal, from households, of political power, production, community, solidarity/ faith goes down (both, more organic solidary, less mechanical solidarity.
