Religiosity and social groups 1 Flashcards
(15 cards)
GENDER : socialisation , miller and Hoffman
females brought up to be submissive passive and obedient.
qualities valued by religion
christianity - women subordinated
A03 : gender socialisation
post- modernism
women no longer passively socialised,
= NAM’s
Nurturing + motherhood : Bruce
women socialised into traditional femininity - with childbearing
women are more caring and cooperative
A03: glass ceiling and movement away from traditional femininity
Closer to “ultimate Q’s : davie
closer to ultimate questions eg life or death
through childbirth , being main carers in society
A03 : increase in secularisation = scientific answers for this
compensation for Deprivation: glock and stark
women participate in religion because of compensators to
Organismic- women more likely to suffer health and find healing
Ethical - morally conservative , push toward world rejecting NRM
Social deprivation - women poor , sects attract poor
PENTECOSTAL GENDER PARADOX : MARTIN
-1970s Pentecostalism grown rapidly
regarded as patriarchal
- demands an ascetic lifestyle
- men in church are respectful , this provides women with security .
ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN RELIGIOSITY : Solidarity - Davie
religiosity maintains tradition , cohesion and community solidarity
ethnic identity - art, marriage
focus for social life
Cultural defence : Bruce
religion offers cultural identity in hostile environments
basis for community solidarity
Black people - not welcome in normal , welcome in pentecostal church
cultural transition : Bruce
religion eases transition to a new culture
bruce :
social deprivation and marginality
afro caribbean 3x as likely to be unemployed
Ems on fringes of society , dissatisfied
religion provides a “theodicy of disprivilege” WEBER
stark and bainbridge identity this
Disengagement : older people
face growing privatisation , religion socially support
ageing effect : declining health
generates engagement for comfort coping and meaning
MALINOWSKI - life crisis
A03 : weber links this to rationalisation , elderly turn to medics
A03 : EM marginalisation
existential security theory norris and englehart. poverty of EM is bigger factor in being religious , as they feel under threat
Generational effect: age
each new religion is less religious than before .
due to secularisation , of family and socialisation
A03: weak religion , older people religious because of death BRUCE
Expanding spiritual marketplace : Lynch
young people turning away from conventional ideas of religion - young people can build on spiritual beliefs
