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beliefs in society
PERSPECTIVES
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FUNCTIONALISM
PARSONS argued that religion has a specific function in society that creates social stability as it reinforces the value consensus as many legal systems are based upon religious morals / MALINOWSKI argues that religion provides comfort to those who are in needs and can help them through psychological stresses as it has more specific functions
MARXISM
MARX argued that religion becomes the OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE which suggests that the working class use religion as an addiction to help them through 'tough times' such as poverty / ALTHUSSER would argue that religion reinforces the ideological state apparatus as it masks the misery of the working class in a capitalist society
MARXISM would argue that all ideologies are manipulated by the ruling class to maintain and reproduce social class inequality
THEREFORE reinforcing false class consciousness - ALTHUSSER
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IDEOLOGY, SCIENCE AND RELIGION
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SOCIAL CHANGE
BRUCE argues that religion can be used as a force for social change as it depends on the actions and how society reacts. FOR EXAMPLE the civil rights movement was largely influenced by black clergy men suhc as MLK who used religion and peace as a way to bring together all christians regardless of ethnic minority
BELIEF SYSTEMS
SCIENCE AS AN OPEN BELIEF SYSTEM - POPPER suggests that the rise of science has replaced religion to an extent due to it being an open belief system
- POPPER argues that it has became the dominant ideology in western societies as it is built upon falsification - if one theory is disproved, it is replaced with another
SCIENCE AS A CLOSED BELIEF SYSTEM - KUHN argues that science is a closed belief systems it does not encourage freedom of thought due to the paradigms it is within as those who question science are ridiculed and marginalised -