Discuss the functionalist perspective on religion. (20 marks) The functionalist perspective is a consensus theory; it believes that society has a set of shared values and beliefs. Durkheim was the 1st functionalist to develop the idea that religious institutions play a central part in creating and maintaining value consensus‚ order and solidarity. The anthropologist‚ Malinowski‚ built on Durkheim’s idea and expanded with his own ideas. The functionalists‚ Parsons and Bellah later added their own
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Marital Paradigm I grew up in a joint family in India‚ which had 3 married couple and their kids. Marital relationships that I saw in my family were not great but not bad either. All the men used to work in the family business and the women used to take care of the children and the house. Many times my parents used to fight and my dad used to scream at my mom‚ but my mom never had the guts to say anything to him. I always saw that my mom was scared of him and I used to question myself why doesn’t
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Asses the functionalist view that religion benefits both society as a whole and its individual members. 33marks The functionalist view of religion stems from Durkheim who said that society is like the human body. He argued that that religion reinforces collective conscience that leads to a unity within society as a whole and that each member of the society is joined in solidarity‚ therefore it acts as glue. It does so by reinforcing social norms and values that bring the community together. It
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This period in history reflected the principles of functionalist theory‚ which believed that each part of society served a place and contributed to the stability of society as a whole. The post WWII generation was predisposed to resonate with the theories of Robert K Merton‚ a sociologist who emphasized middle range theory‚ criticized grand theorists in sociology‚ and exemplified functionalist theory. The “organic” metaphor in functionalist theory looked at society as a giant organism that could
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Even in 2016‚ structural racism still occurs in the United States. One of the most pertinent areas with structural racism is in the reproductive health of African American communities. There are many disadvantages that affect black women’s access to health care and education about reproductive health. One of the biggest questions stems from how we as a society let this continue due to public policy‚ cultural representations‚ and norms that we have accepted. The main reason for this difference in
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Salvador Minuchin’s Structural Model focuses on the family’s underlying organizational framework and its adaptability towards changing conditions throughout the family cycle that help regulate functional or dysfunctional patterns. His belief was that families experience life cycles searching for a balance between stability and change. Minuchin felt that there must be change within the family structure before any symptoms could be alleviated within the individual. By attempting to do so‚ the therapist
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Like the intentionalists‚ the functionalists did have some stronger arguments. Mommsen refers to the Holocaust as a “political process which eventually led to the conclusion that there was no way out but to kill the Jews in Auschwitz and elsewhere.” He further put forth his belief “this did not come into being before the second half of 1941.” Intentionalists cannot counter this claim easily‚ “No one has uncovered any SS plans for the relocation of Jews in the Soviet interior‚” intentionalist Richard
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Structural Engineer’s Pocket Book This Page Intentionally Left Blank Structural Engineer’s Pocket Book Fiona Cobb AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House‚ Jordan Hill‚ Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Rd‚ Burlington‚ MA 01803 First published 2004 Copyright ª 2004‚ Fiona Cobb. All rights reserved The right of Fiona Cobb to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted
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Using the Functionalist perspective discuss how sport can be used as an avenue for socialisation and social mobility Introduction Sports! There are very small areas in society that can generate such passion and interest and elevate its participants to almost divine status and raise them from humble beginnings to lords and ladies of the manner. For this reason sports can be used as a powerful medium for socialisation; although not exclusively as other social interactions can have the same results
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Criticisms of the functionalist view of the family Functionalism is the theory that all aspects of society serve a function‚ and these functions are necessary for society. Functionalists believe that the survival of society depends on all of the different aspects which is a like the human body. The human body has all different aspects of it working together to make it function (organs) and without one of these the body wouldn’t work‚ this is what functionalists believe society is like. Marxists
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