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- nds of social meanings? Do all religious forms, institutions or belief systems reflect the same social values?... ey matter. * Weber says that social patterns and institutions form because social actions have a meaning to the actor and to the society at large. Social institutions and structures are particualr ways of embodying a
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- the role played by religious ideas, practices and institutions in societies. * The **social study of religion**
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- ithin a division of labor. * Patterns of society, institutions, rules, and norms, in other words, social facts,
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- * In this story, history moves from traditional institutions which limit people's freedom to a new, rational o