RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS

Question 1

{why people join sects}
marginalisation🥒

Answer 1

•can’t access same economic rewards
•[WEBER] - among poor
•WC/ elderly, EM’s join world rejecting sects
•compensation for poverty

Question 2

{why people join sects}
relative deprivation🍓

Answer 2

•MC spiritually deprived- join world affirming NRMS to find balance
•social dep, organismic dep, ethical dep

Question 3

{why people join sects}
social change🥝

Answer 3

[DURKHEIM]
•creates anomie
[WILSON]
•world accommodating NRMS was reaction to anxieties frim urbanisation

Question 4

{why people join sects}
status frustration🌶️

Answer 4

•unhappy with low position
•offer identity overcome frustration

Question 5

{new age movements}
Explanation🥯

Answer 5

[HEELAS]
•common themes :
- self-spirituality : look inside themselves
- detraditionalisation : rejects spiritual authority

Question 6

{new age movements}
explanation🥦

Answer 6

[BRUCE]
•CHEST (main features)
inside self, holistic

Question 7

{why ppt in new age movement}🫐

Answer 7

•individualism [ GIDDENS ]
•decline in status of science
•decline in traditional church
•rise of consumerism