RELIGST 365 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Charlotte Selver, Fatalism, Mortality Salience

• School: UW Whitewater
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 365
• Professor: David Reihardt

Document Summary

Collective representations: if we believe as we are supposed to behave, we will be safe from death if we act accord with our society"s collective representations. A symbol that articulates and embodies the collective beliefs, sentiments, and values of a social group. Refers to ideas, beliefs, and values elaborated by collectivity and which are not reducible to individual constituents. Symbolic constructions: something we have robbed together from our experiences, guesswork, needs, and ignorance. death is subject to the same rules and limitations any other concept. Fatalism: the beliefs that all events and predetermined and therefore inevitable. Example: when your time is up than its up. Settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or something, typically one that is reflected in a person"s behavior. An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists. Feelings: provides us with qualitative information on our total sense of being a status report. Personal experience: influences our attitudes, beliefs, and feelings.