AQA A-Level Sociology Beliefs in Society overview quiz quiz

It permanently divides the whole of society into the rich and the poor

It actively encourages individualism and the pursuit of personal self-interest

Collective worship of the sacred reinforces social solidarity

It is the root cause of most violent religious conflict between groups

Is simply a harmless private personal choice with no wider effect

Literally causes a physical addiction among those who believe in it

Actively promotes radical social change among the working class

Dulls the pain of oppression and prevents revolution

The Protestant ethic helped bring about modern rational capitalism

Calvinism actively prevented and held back the rise of modern capitalism

Capitalism came first and was the underlying cause that produced Calvinism

Religion has no effect whatsoever on the workings of the wider economy

Religion reinforcing and upholding the traditional values of the family

Liberation theology supporting the poor in Latin America

Religion legitimating and justifying the existing social order as it stands

Religion promoting and strengthening the shared collective conscience of society

People formally belong to a church and attend it but do not actually believe at all

People simultaneously believe in many different religions all at the very same time

People retain religious beliefs even though they no longer attend church

Belief and belonging always go firmly together and can never be separated at all

Increases the total number of committed believers across society as a whole

Strengthens and reinforces the single overarching sacred canopy over society

Forces more and more people to attend a place of worship regularly each week

Undermines the plausibility of any single religion

Churches are large, formal and inclusive; sects are small, exclusive and in tension with society

Churches are illegal organisations everywhere, whereas sects are always fully legal and recognised

Sects are closely linked to and supported by the state, whereas churches never are at all

There is no meaningful difference at all between a church and a sect in modern sociology

Church, denomination and cult as the three main organisational forms

World-rejecting, world-accommodating and world-affirming

Audience cults, client cults and tightly organised cultic movements

Primary movements, secondary movements and tertiary movements in turn

Defending a country's national borders by means of religious justification and faith

Defending and arguing in favour of the secularisation thesis against its critics

Religion uniting and protecting a community's identity when it feels under threat

Physically protecting and preserving important religious buildings and monuments

The ageing effect only, whereby people simply become more religious as they grow older

The gradual social and political disengagement of younger people from public life

The generally higher incomes enjoyed by older people compared with the young

The generational (period) effect, as each generation is less religious than the last