SOC 1100 Chapter 16: Chapter 16

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Collective consensus: comprises the common sentiments and values that people share as a result of living together. Profane: refers to the secular, everyday world. Sacred: refers to the religious transcendent world. Rituals: public practices designed to connect people to the sacred. Routinization of charisma: weber"s term for the transformation of divine enlightenment into a permanent feature of everyday life. Church: a bureaucratic religious organization that has accommodated itself to mainstream society and culture. Secularization thesis: says that religious institutions, actions, and consciousness are on the decline worldwide. Fundamentalists: interpret their religious scriptures literally, seek to establish a direct, personal relationship with higher beings they worship, are relatively intolerant of non-fundamentalists, and often support conservative social and political issues. Revised secularization thesis: holds that worldly institutions break off from the institution of religion over time. As a result, religion governs an ever-smaller part of most people"s lives and becomes largely a matter of personal choice.