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34 Cards in this Set
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What types of truth are there |
scientific religious |
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What is a belief |
Any idea believed to be true |
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What is a belief system? |
shared sets of interrelated beliefs |
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What is religion |
An institutionalized belief system |
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What are the worlds largest religions? |
Christianity - 33% Islam - 21% Non-Religious - 16% Hinduism - 14% |
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What are some positive outcomes for religious individuals? |
-better mental/physical health -less substance abuse -better family relationships -stronger academic orientation |
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What types of capital is religion |
Bridging capital Bonding capital Social capital |
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What are some positive implications of religion for society? |
-donations -volunteers |
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What are some negative implications of religion for society? |
us vs them |
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According to Durkheim and functionalism, religion provides: |
-collective consciousness -collective effervescence |
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According to modern functionalists, religion provides: |
Positive & negative bonding capital Role in social integration and health |
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Conflict view on religion |
Religion is the opium of the people Religion creates and maintains inequality |
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Feminist Views on religion: |
feminists focus on oppression of women in religion |
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What are the four types of religious feminists? |
Revisionist Reformists Revolutionary Rejectionist |
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What does a revisionist focus on? |
Uncovering messages of inequality |
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What does a reformist focus on? |
Removing sexist content and rituals |
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What does a revolutionist focus on? |
Integrating new ideas |
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What does a rejectionist focus on? |
New, female-cantered spirituality |
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What did Weber (an interactionist) say about religion? |
That religion enabled capitalism |
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What do contemporary interactionist study about religion/ |
How religion relates to: people's understanding of society identity formation |
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What are the two viewpoints regarding science |
-socially contructed -objective truth |
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What are the aspects of Merton's normative structure of science |
Communism
Universalism Disinterestedness Skepticism |
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What does communism entail? |
Knowledge is freely shared |
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What does universalism entail? |
Free of biases |
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What does disinterestedness entail? |
Truth as the only goal |
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What does skepticism entail? |
Knowledge is open to organized scrutiny |
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Outline the corporatization of science |
-determine research topics -pay for desired results -prevent publication of results -support promotion of corporate-friendly academics |
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What about science do sociologist study? |
-how scientific knowledge emerges and is accepted -role of social and political forces -impact of funding structures |
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What are the influential frameworks in regards to science? |
Feminist: underrepresentation of women Poststructuralist Foccault: knowledge intertwined with power |
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What about schools to sociologists study? |
-functions of schooling -curricula and their social construction -interrelationships with other institutions -private vs. public -interrelationship with social class |
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How do functionalists view education? |
Provide stability and order |
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Manifest functions of school |
-skill and knowledge development -historical and cultural transmission -social development and control |
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Latent functions of school |
Child Care Social life |
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Critical perspectives on school |
–Hidden curriculum promotessocial reproduction –School costs affectclasses differently –Credentialismis linked to social class privilege |
