Sociology in Our Times (7th Edition)



Sociology in Our Times (7th Edition)

|Category |Chapter 17: Learning Objectives |

|KNOWLEDGE: |Define and discuss the four main categories of religion, and link them to the types of societies in |

|Remembering previously learned material |which they tend to occur. |

| |List the six major world religions and state their basic beliefs. |

|COMPREHENSION: |Define the concept of religion and indicate how the sociological investigation of religion is |

|The ability to grasp the meaning of the |different than a theological investigation. |

|material |Summarize the controversy about teaching intelligent design in the classroom. |

| |Describe the ways that a group may move from one type of religious organization to another over |

| |time. |

|APPLICATION: |Discuss the relationship between religion and questions about the meaning of life. |

|The ability to use material in new and |Describe the functionalist perspective on religion including its major functions in societies. |

|concrete situations |Describe symbolic interactionist perspectives on religion and explain how women and men may view |

| |religion differently. |

| |Discuss the effects of race and class on central-city and suburban churches in the U.S. |

|ANALYSIS: The ability to break down |Explain Durkheim’s ideas about religion focusing on the sacred and the profane. |

|material into its component parts so |Describe conflict perspectives on religion and distinguish between the approaches of Karl Marx and |

|that its organizational structure may be|Max Weber. |

|understood |Describe the relationship between religion and social inequality. |

|SYNTHESIS: The ability to put parts |Distinguish between the different types of religious organization. |

|together to form a new whole | |

|EVALUATION: The ability to judge the |Compare and contrast civil religion with other forms of religion. |

|value of material for a given purpose |Explain the relationship between the growth of secularization and the rise of religious |

| |fundamentalism. |

| |Describe the future of religion in the U.S. and in other nations of the world. |

| |Appraise the major arguments for and against the theory of secularization. |

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