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Durkheim |
•Sacred/Profane-things set apart/ordinary and mundane •totemism-totems people worship represent society(even if they're unaware) •social cohesion-religion brings society together •cognitive function-responsable for space and time |
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Brionslaw Malinowski |
Social solidarity through physiological functions •when the outcome is unpredictable •at times of life crisis e.g. death |
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Parsons |
•religions creates and legitimates society's basic norms and values by sacralising them •Gives answers to unanswerable questions |
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Bellah |
Civil religion •a believe system that that attatcges sacred qualities to society itself •expressed through national flag and singing the national anthem |
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Evaluation of functionalism |
•Neglects negative aspects of religion such as a source of oppression •Ignored religion as a source of dicisionand conflict |
