VALUE CONCENCUS: A group of people with the same aims and
values who believe in the same end goal
IDENTITY: Items of clothing that are the same throughout
religion, therefore showing which religion a person belongs
to.
SOCIAL ORDER: Creates social norms and
values through religion for example extremists
have social norms of violence and destructions
due to religion
SOCIAL SOLIDARITY: Groups of people coming
together and forming a community based on their
religion and their beliefs
COLLECIVE CONSCIENCE: Everyone has the same
ideas and values due to their specific religion
DURKHEIM: Sacred item are ones that hold a holy
value such as a cross or a church. Profane items
are ones that hold no Religous value or meaning
such as a cup or a football
CRITICISMS OF DURKHEIM: Fragmented and
broken as in post modernists society people
believe in many different religions and have
many different norms and beliefs.
MALINOWSKI: Life Crisis- people will turn to
religion and God during a time of crisis and
use prayer as a form of help or guidance
PARSONS: Answering the Unanswerable- People will use religion to
answer unanswerable questions for example if a child was terminally
ill people would say things like 'God only takes the best'
PARSONS: Sacralisation- To make something
holy or sacred. The American dream religous
BELLAH- Civil Religion- We have big events that
bring us all together as people now are becoming
less Religous. These events include Christmas,
Royal Events and 7/7
Beckford said that "If the UK has a civil religion it is
at best occasional and at worst weak"
DURKHEIM: Totemism- People used Totems as their sacred object to
form a society with the same norms, values ad beliefs