SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Protestant Work Ethic, Symbolic Interactionism
19 Apr 2013
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Sociologists: not concerned about the essence of religion, but studying the conditions/effects of a particular type of social behaviour. Whether religious ideas are true is not our concern, but rather the fact that they are believed to be true. The fact that religious ideas are held means they potentially can have an important impact on individuals and social life. Religion is functional, useful for society, meets our societal/spiritual needs. Helps create moral boundaries + social solidarity. Before social services - served as social care. Gods that people worshipped are socially created. Important aspect of religious practice is that it"s often done as a group; people worship/pray together. Science doesn"t have answers to most important questions in life and so religion can step in to provide answers. Societies integrate people into society by creating sense of unity/solidarity. Evolutionary view of society - moving through diff stages. Societies move to mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity.
