AQA A-Level Sociology: Who Said It - Beliefs

Question 1

Religion maintains social order and promotes value consensus.

Accepted Answer

Parsons

Question 2

Religion provides security in a risky world. This is why poorer countries are less secular e.g. Chad, Rwanda, Mali.

Accepted Answer

Norris & Inglehart

Question 3

India has become a civil religion. Worshipping Hinduism is seen as worshipping India.

Accepted Answer

Nanda

Question 4

Theodicy of disprivileges is the belief that salvation is granted as a reward of earthly poverty.

Accepted Answer

Weber

Question 5

Men are less likely to be religious because they are risk-takers.

Accepted Answer

Miller & Hoffman

Question 6

Civil religion is the belief system that binds people together.

Accepted Answer

Bellah

Question 7

Recent decades have seen an emergence of secular fundamentalism e.g. in France.

Accepted Answer

Davie

Question 8

Calvinism led to the rise in capitalism.

Accepted Answer

Weber

Question 9

Changes due to a postmodern society have caused a crisis of meaning.

Accepted Answer

Bauman

Question 10

Religion can be a revolutionary force and believed in the Liberation theology.

Accepted Answer

Maduro

Question 11

Secularisation always leads to religious revival. Humans are naturally religious and in need of spirituality.

Accepted Answer

Stark & Bainbridge

Question 12

Defines religion as a belief in a superior or supernatural power that is above nature.

Accepted Answer

Weber

Question 13

As we approach death, we naturally become more concerned with the afterlife.

Accepted Answer

Heelas

Question 14

The working class are more likely to believe without belonging.

Accepted Answer

Davie

Question 15

Religion is a 'spiritual gin' that is doled out to confuse the masses.

Accepted Answer

Lenin

Question 16

Fundamentalism is only confined to monotheistic religions, because of the lack of different interpretations.

Accepted Answer

Bruce

Question 17

Religion offers support and a sense of cultural identity in a hostile environment.

Accepted Answer

Bruce

Question 18

The reformation started rationalisation, which undermined the religious worldview.

Accepted Answer

Weber

Question 19

Women are more likely to participate in NAMs because of their focus on the inner self.

Accepted Answer

Heelas & Woodhead

Question 20

Some people gravitate to the certainty of fundamentalism in an uncertain postmodern society.

Accepted Answer

Bauman

Question 21

The ruling class' ideological domination is called hegemony.

Accepted Answer

Gramsci

Question 22

Early religions placed women at their centre. Monotheistic religions brought about an all-powerful male God.

Accepted Answer

Armstrong

Questions 22