Topic 6 of 6 · Form 6
Religion, crime, media and globalisation
Functionalist, Marxist, Weberian and feminist views; religion and social change; secularisation debate; new religious movements; fundamentalism; religion in developing societies.
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Religion
Functionalist, Marxist, Weberian and feminist views; religion and social change; secularisation debate; new religious movements; fundamentalism; religion in developing societies.
Crime and deviance
Social construction of crime; theories (functionalism, strain, subcultural, labelling, Marxist, realist, feminist); patterns and statistics; social control and punishment.
Media
Ownership and control; effects models; representations; new media and globalisation.
Globalisation and development
Modernisation and dependency theories; world systems theory; globalisation's effects on culture, economy and politics; global inequality.
Worked example: Evaluate the secularisation thesis with reference to African societies.
Growth of Pentecostal and African Initiated churches suggests religious vitality, challenging secularisation; but declining influence of religious institutions on law and education in some areas partly supports it.
Check yourself
- What did Weber argue about religion and capitalism?
- What is a moral panic?
- Summarise dependency theory.
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- The Protestant ethic encouraged hard work and reinvestment, contributing to capitalism.
- An exaggerated social reaction to a group seen as a threat, often amplified by the media.
- Developing countries are kept poor by exploitative relationships with developed countries.
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