Beliefs in society

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Functionalists
Society with basic needs that must be met to survive. bsic need for social order & solidarit, orders made possible by value consensus. Durkheim = relig institutions play central part in creating & maintaining value consensus, order & solidarity.
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The sacred and the profane
Durkheim: Sacred & Profane. Sacred things set apart & forbidden with taboos and prohibitions. Profane, ordinary things with no special significance.
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Durkheim: Rituals
More than set of beliefs: rituals are collective. Durkheim argues sacred things create powerful feelings in believers because they are symbols representing something of great power, and this can only be society. When people worship scared symbols
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Continuation
they're worshipping society itself, sacred symbols uniting believers. Durkheim believed essence of all relifion can be found by studying its simplest
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from. He used the study of Arunt, Aboriginal Australian tribe with clan system. All came together to worship totem, when in reality worship society
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Totem
Inspires awe in clans members precisley
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The sacred and the profane

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Durkheim: Sacred & Profane. Sacred things set apart & forbidden with taboos and prohibitions. Profane, ordinary things with no special significance.

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