SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Visible Minority, Social Inequality, Social Forces

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Incente

Document Summary

Organized religion used to be the main purveyor of formal knowledge and the most important agent of socialization apart from family. Today, the education system is the main purveyor of formal knowledge and the most important agent of socialization apart from the family. When people live together, they come to share common sentiments and values, these are collective conscience. Rituals: invent practises that connect people to sacred. The function of religion and rituals is to reinforce social solidarity. Ex: suicide rate drops during the day before and the day of the superbowl. Criticis(cid:373)s agai(cid:374)st durkhei(cid:373)"s theory of religio(cid:374) o(cid:374) a fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)alist a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t. according to conflict and feminist theorists: It o(cid:448)ere(cid:373)phasizes religio(cid:374)"s role i(cid:374) (cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:272)ohesio(cid:374) (i(cid:374) reality, religio(cid:374) often incites social conflict) Ignores the fact that when religion does increase social cohesion, it often reinforces social inequality. The routinization of charisma: transformation of divine enlightenment into a permanent feature of everyday life.