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ence of belonging to a group, and being part of a social whole.)). To understand what this means, we need to understand Durkheim's argument that the social fact of the category of the sacred is functionall... some other, more current, science fiction). * **Social facts** are collective representations (or 'const... ousness, imposes on its members' consciousnesses. Social facts appear to people as being external and coer

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ewater-stays-dirty-in-our-minds. ## Types of social action ## * Traditional: Like a habit or an unq... eral is a very important and very special type of social action. ## Quiz: What types of social action best describe these activities? ## * Brushing your teeth ... lk to each other about the best Weberian types of social action to classify these activities. Do you agree

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media ### Anonymous. 2013. "Emile Durkheim and Socialization." YouTube, September 12. https://www.youtu... have any questions for me? ## Society, religion, social theory, social studies of religion ## This class focuses on the relationships between religion and socie... practices and institutions in societies. * The **social study of religion** is different than the history

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l in helping anthropologists think about magic in social terms. ## Key points about witchcraft and sorcer... d or just covert? ## Witchcraft: a gold mine for social theory ## Social anthropologists loved talking about witchcraft and sorcery. It seemed a perfect test case for their ideas about social function: * Witchcraft and sorcery functions in

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ments about what other people wear. * Dress is a social action - it sends a message, even if that message... . ## Weber and hipsters ## * Weber's theory of social action is relevant here: To understand social action, we must look at the meaning the actors puts in thei... nd niche marketing. What was her main point? ## Social identity and mass consumption ## A simplified th

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Lisa." The Simpsons (1998).}} ## The limits of social science ## Social scientific approaches to religion can only look at concrete, observable, empirical facts about people's behavior. This means that social scientific explanations are always on the outside looking in. It also means that social scientific explanations assume that, being from a

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gy examines religion in relation to the **broader social and cultural context**. That is what we are doin... onship does religious belief and practice have to social order overall?: The key theories of [[:Emile Durk... s, Naomi. 2017. Moving by the Spirit: Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley, Calif.:

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es, Ruy, and Diana Espírito Santo, eds. 2013. The Social Life of Spirits. Chicago: University of Chicago P... sha, Omri. 2011. Moral Ambition: Mobilization and Social Outreach in Evangelical Megachurches. Berkeley, C... s. Samuels, Jeffrey. 2010. Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri La

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resources the university and faculty of arts and social sciences offers for staying on top of your work. ... ite.elearn.usyd.edu.au/. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has units at both an Undergraduate and P... ially for students studying in the Humanities and Social Sciences at http://libguides.library.usyd.edu.au/

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sm: The Problem of the Repugnant Cultural Other.” Social Research 58 (2): 373–93. ### Other media ### A... istianity in sub-Saharan Africa. ## Religion and social change: A two-way street ## Based on Weber's ide... esis: * Is it based on a flawed assumption about social change. * It really doesn't look at all the rele

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ligious movements are more effective at achieving social change than any other kind of mass political move... rrie Nation (see Nation 1909, 130) * Religion and social capital (Levitt 2001, 2007, Hertzberg 2014) * Spi

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collective consciousness * Religion as a type of social action * Religious experience and subjectivity *

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it is to examine religion and its relationship to social life. Arguably the study of religion has been par

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nvestigate a problematic issue arising within the social study of religion, read ethnographies on this top

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s tell a story of themselves in which the present social order represents the emancipation of the individu

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