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1
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what is a belief system?

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where members of group share commitment to set of beliefs and values that systematically defines way of perceiving social, cultural, physical and psychological world.

2
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what can belief system be categorised into?

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as religious and non-religious.

3
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what do both categories of belief system have in common?

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Both have ritual, symbols, stories, traditions and customs

4
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what do BS influence?

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our identity and our meaning of life (from macro, meso and micro)

5
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what is BS a way of?

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organising the beliefs of whole community of people at the meso or macro leve

6
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what is macro and meso level BS?

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Meso belief system if localised and only involves few people, or macro belief system if national or even internal following and involves thousands of people

7
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what is ideology?

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organised collection or body of ideas that reflects beliefs, values and interests of group, system, institution or nation.

8
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what does ideology refer to?

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to body of doctrine, myth and symbols held by group that guides individual and group actions.

9
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what does ideology offer?

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perspective through which world can be understood and explained. E.g. Marxism, Feminism, Confucianism

10
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at what levels does ideology function?

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micro, meso and macro level

11
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differences between BS and ideology?

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*level of organisation (belief ‘system’ indicates organised, whereas ideology less organised, more ingrained.)

12
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what does BS and ideology produce?

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worldview

13
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what is worldview?

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perspective of world from set of beliefs or ideologies.

14
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what can worldview cause?

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cause conflicts between different belief systems/ideologies, having impact of world events, e.g. conflicts between Christianity and Islam throughout history

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