Religiosity & Social Groups
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- Religiosity & social groups
- Gender
- Miller and Hoffman
- 3
reasons for women’s higher levels of religiosity:
- risk taking
- socialisation
- gender roles
- 3
reasons for women’s higher levels of religiosity:
- Bruce
- Women’s religiosity is a result of their lower levels of involvement in paid work, religion has recently been adopted into the private sphere of the home so women have more time to follow religion
- Most churchgoers are females who outnumber males by almost half a million
- more women than men (55% vs 44%) say they’re religious
- more women than men (38% vs 26% say that religion is important to them.
- Miller and Hoffman
- Ethnicity
- · The UK is now seen as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious society.
- Bird (1999) .
- notes that religion can hold community solidarity to the minorities who are poor and oppressed
- Bruce
- Bruce (2002) argues that religion offers support and a sense of cultural identity, this becomes especially relevant in uncertain or hostile environments
- Religion can also be used as a means into easing the transition into a new culture by providing support and a sense of community.
- Age
- The older a person is, the more likely they are to attend religious services
- Voas and Crockett (2005)
- suggest 3 possible explanations for age differences in religiosity:
- the ageing effect
- the period or cohort effect
- secularisation
- suggest 3 possible explanations for age differences in religiosity:
- Gender
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