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ROW 2 Durkheim
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who lead the movement toward functionalism away from evolutionary idea. | Durkheim |
| by the ____ there was a general retreat of evolutionary thought in social science. | 1930's |
| Complex societies have complicated what? | social structures |
| lot's of disagreement, people who do not accept the status quo. | Heterodoxy |
| The more complex the social structure, the more likely there is to be | Heterodoxy |
| Who was the son of a Jewish Rabbi, a confirmed atheist? | Durkheim |
| What did Durkheim attempt to do his entire life? | Establish sociology as an independent scientific discipline based on emperical methods. |
| What was the name of Durkheims 1964 study? | The Division of Labour in society. He lays out his scheme regarding simple and complex societies. |
| You have a common value system, orthodoxy is prominent. Easy for people to be on the same page regarding religion. | simple society |
| As societies become more complex, they become more ______. | Secular. |
| Give two examples of secular | our public education system and our medical system. |
| What is Durkheims classic study and when was it written? | The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1915) |
| Who didn't think there was anything to religion, but could not ignore it because he was a sociologist? | Durkheim |
| Why could Durkheim care less whether the claim of religious beliefs being true or false? | Because he was an atheist |
| In reality, there are no religions that are false. | Durkheim |
| Durkheim is NOT a cultural Materialist because he says that all religions, even primative function the same way. | (blank) |
| Durkheim define religion as | a unified set of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things that is to say things set apart and forbidden- beliefs and practices which unite one singel moral community- all those who adhere to them. |
| Durkheim said... | Religion is not personal, not an individual thing, religion is a collective cultural thing, a group cultural activety because religions are bigger than people. |
| In ___________ terms all religions are nonfunctional | instrumental |
| What two things are almost the same to Durkheim? | God and society. It's why he understands that religion is important. |
| Totem represents two things.. | a symbol of the God and of the society |
| Durkheim said | God is only a figurative expression of the society |
| monolithic | does not change, stays the same. |
| Existentialism | Jean-Paul Sartre, french philospher 1930's, said existence precedes essence. First you are born, then you are made. There is a window of opportunity to make yourself. |
| What celebrates and champions the idea that an individual should make themselves? | Existentialism |
| rituals function not only to strengthen the bonds attaching the individual to God, but they stregnthen the bonds attaching the individual to social group of which he or she is a member through______ the group becomes consious of itself.? | rituals |
| religious rituals are seen as a primary mechanism for expressing and reinforcing the sentiments and _____ of the group | solidarity |
| What is an inauthentic man? | the man that let's his culture make him what he is |
| Who said, if you are an inauthentic man, you will never know God as an individual? | Kierkegaard, he was an existentialist |
| Why does Durkheims theory not help us address change? | Because it emphasis the conservative religion too much. |
| Regarding Durkheim aitisims | Religion is a conservative force, he doesn't talk much about change. |
| Durkheim ignorse existential cocerns. | (blank) |