SOCI 3650 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Georg Simmel, Hindutva, Seat Belt
17 Oct 2014
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Symbolist: focus on symbolic elements as catalysts for action and structuring representations, culturally honed symbolic forms shape religious experiences and emotions. Can you illustrate this with the example of pussy riot"s punk. Durkheim: religion binds people together, religion entails classificatory systems around specific understandings of sacred and profane objects. Weber: religion is as something separate from the mundane world. Religious phenomenon: systems of religious belief can engender forms of action. Forms of action that leads to societal change. Capitalism: disenchantment, introduces the comparative study of religion (lecture) Simmel: ambiguity: permanent claims, fluid selves, spiritual aspirations precede institutionalized religion, religious forms change due to modern conditions. Universal core of religion that can be marked by the sacred. Workers relationship to the product of his/her labour: reverses the basic idea of labor for self-subsistence. Workers relationship to the production process: one becomes a stranger to oneself in exercising the new demands of industrial labor.
