Religion's conservative functions
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 18-09-14 10:16
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- Religion's conservative functions
- Religion's function is to conserve/preserve things as they are.
- Religion and consensus
- Functionalists see religions as a conservative force because it functions to maintain social stability and prevent society from disintegrating.
- For example: It promotes social solidarity and stops society from disintegrating by creating value consensus.
- Religion and Capitalism
- Marxists sees religion as a conservative ideology that prevents social change.
- By legitimating class inequality, it creates false consciousness in the working class and prevents revolution, thereby maintaining the stability of Capitalist society.
- Religion and patriarchy
- Acts as an ideology that legitimates patriarchal power and maintains women's subordination in the family and wider society.
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