Beliefs in Society 2017 Queations- Tpoic 1, 2 & 3

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Outline and explain two reasons why sects tend to

You may include:

  • Weber- social deprivation, marginality and theodicies of disprivilege
  • Sects as compensators for social inequalities
  • Status frustration
  • Types of deprivation
  • Sects as social groups
  • Attraction of sects for groups affected by anomie- instability from breakdown of
  • standards with a lack of social/ethical standards in a group
  • Sects as less patriarchal
  • Sects and cultural defence, cultural transition
  • Stark and Bainbridge- Sects promise otherwordly benefits to those suffering economically
  • Wallis- doesn't contradict Weber
    Link differences in significant characteristics in the different group
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Applying material from Item I, analyse two ways in

You could include:

  • Bruce- racial equality
  • Martin Luther King- challenging social injustice in the civil rights movement 
  • Weber- helping capitalism
  • Gramsci- religion and hegemony
  • Weber- social change
2 of 3

Applying material from Item J and your knowledge,

You may include:

  • Science
  • Ideology
  • Open and Closed systems
  • Enlightenment
  • Scientism
  • Empirical evidence
  • falsification
  • Secularisation 
  • rationalisation
  • disenchantment
  • religious pluralism
  • globalisation
  • modernity
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