Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sociology essay revision
- A01
- 1. During the enlightenment - shift
from religion to science
- Weber - this is due to
secularisation
- Beck - shift took place due to people being enlightened by
rational evidence - people basing decisions on risk,
reflexivity and individuality
- 2. Post mod - agrees - Lyotard - language games (not about looking for
truth, but about looking for solutions to some problems), pick and
mix ->world is characterized by hybridity and diversity
- 3. Post mod - agrees - Baudrillard - we worship simulacrums
e.g.Disneyland, consumerism, death of the social=decline in
spirituality. BUT suggests consumerism has become the
new religion - worship products instead of God
- 4. Harvey and Strinati - Globalisation - H - decline in
space compression, ideas are spread worldwide
v.quickly. S - time less imp. media can give us images
from past and present
- pick and mix through time and
places to beliefs we like
- A02
- 5. Marxism - against - Marx -
dominated by religion, no power to
PICK AND MIX
- Althusser - 'ideological state apparatus' - religion is
like a placebo because we believe that our suffering
as exploited workers won't last long because God
will save us
- 6. Gramsci - religion is still trying to dominate.
Practicality+spirituality=liberation theology -
Christian Aid
- Have we finished
shopping?
- 7. Feminism - Browne and
Bevoir
- Brown - Stained glass ceiling -
females see their potential but
cannot reach it - still patriarchal -
are women able to pick and
choose if they're so oppressed by
men
- Bevoir - religion socialises conjugal roles -
lack of freedom - therefore cannot be
'spiritual shoppers'
- A03
- 10. Interactionism - Weber - People have the
power to adopt their own religion - religion is
socially constructed. Religion rich in
verstehen - empathy for individual
- 9. Functionalism - Parsons - we may
pick and mix but christianity is still
the main religion - Thou shalt not
kill. In times of crisis people will
always turn to religion
- 8. Functionalist - Durkeim - Suggests we
just need religion in society - whether
we pick and mix or not. Totemism -
worshiping totems gave the
community peace
- Conclusion - all perspectives have valid arguments - religion is
still needed for sanctuary. New right - if laws were not based on
religious teachings then there would be anarchy, no social
anomie and lack of morals, norms and values