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03-25-2009, 10:11 PM | #11 (permalink) | |
Make it so
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I used to think so too...
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03-26-2009, 03:25 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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so this isn't a terrible "Desolation Row" pun?
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03-31-2009, 08:58 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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03-31-2009, 10:14 PM | #15 (permalink) |
Let it drip
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No im from an Anthropology background, which is pretty much an amalgamation of sociology, psychology and history anyway. My view on it is quite similiar to yours, im very much a functionalist in that i see morality as serving to preserve the efficiency and consequent prosperity of civilization. Religion comes into it in that, specifically from a western POV, Christianity was the social institution in which morality was cultivated and impressed onto the public from.
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03-31-2009, 11:46 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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Ok, makes sense. I agree that anthropology and sociology share some theories as well as research methods. I actually borrow a lot from anthropology to study social groups or communities. I would say that I am more a "conflict theorist" rather than "functionalist." Rather than saying that morality/religion functions to "preserve efficiency and consequent prosperity of civilization," I would say that morality/religion mainly serve the purpose of the social group with the most power. The most powerful group uses morality and religion to force onto others in the society the values, norms, perspectives that best serve that powerful group. In other words, by constructing the dominant morality and notion of religion, the powerful group preserves its own efficiency and prosperity, and other members of the society are duped to believe they need to accept this dominant morality/religion to be prosperous, too.
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