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Durkheim on religion (Collective conscience (Sacred symbols represent…
Durkheim on religion
Collective conscience
Sacred symbols represent society's collective conscience this is a shared norms and values that make social life and cooperation between individuals possible.
Regular shared religious rituals reinforce the collective conscience and maintain social integration. Reminding them of a single moral community.
Religion also performs a function for the individual. Making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves, strengthens us to face life's trials
Cognitive functions
Our Intellectual or cognitive capacities our ability to reason for example. We need time, space, cause, substance
In order to share our, thoughts we need to use the same categories
The origins of concepts we need for reasoning, understanding and communicating
Psychological functions
Malinowski agrees that religion promotes social solidarity. However it does so by performing psychological functions for individuals helping to cope with emotional stress.
Lagoon fishing- Safe and uses predictable and successful methods. Ocean Fishing- Dangerous and uncertain rituals often give people a sense of control and ease tension
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Totemism
Arunta clans consist of bands of kin who come together periodically to perform rituals involving worship of sacred totem. This is the clans emblem
Again when they worship this totem they are actually worshipping society itself. Even tho they are not aware of this.
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