Sociology and Statistics

Sociology Discussion Questions

Answer 1

America has become the most religious country among all the developed countries. It has now many different religious groups around 3,000. American nation was founded on the values and rights. According to Charles C.Haynes “At our best, Americans are defined by the principles and ideals that we share and hold in the farming documents” various surveys have done in order to measure the religiosity in America and the result show that religion remain an important element in Americans. According to Pew Research Center for the People and the Press 64% Americans shared the positive views about religion in life and declared a major element of life. (Murray, B. T, 2008)

In Europe religion has a major influence of art, law, philosophy and culture. Christianity is the largest religion in Europe. From the fast past years, European countries have been facing a declining trend in religious activities. For instance in Sweden people are not attending Church activities and the reason is that the Swedish started to believe in a personal God. It is clear to all that Americans are more religious than Europeans. Like in America a President should believe in God while in Europe, this religious condition does not imply on the ruler of the state. The declining trend in Europeans religious activities started since 1960s with simultaneous increase in the United States. There are various reasons of this in which few are that firstly the Americans strongly believe on individualism and strength of independence. Secondly the size of America and transferring of its population and for this Church provides a point for making community at a new place. As compare to Europe there is very less mobilization of people therefore no need of community.(www.becker-posner-blog.com)

Answer 2

Deprivatization and Dedifferntiation

Any religion is a system of beliefs and practices which contain specific kind of content, generally a god or any force.

In the past, the religion treated as a private affair and do not contain the involvement of private sector. But in today's modern society the involvement of the private sphere in religion is called deprivatization. Deprivatization refers to the exclusion of the private sphere from religion. It gives new concept of religion discussion publicly. Everyone is free to share his or her views about the religion. It means that it gives a platform to share the views of different people. It refers to the discussion on religious beliefs publicly and does not only restrict to the personal preferences or beliefs for religion. According to the deprivatization concept religion is become a public affair and matter of public arguments.

Differentiation in religion means the divisions of different institutes on religious bases like mosques, churches etc. Dedifferentiation is the reverse case of differentiation which tells that religion should not be categorized into different institutions. The examples of religious institutes are mosques for Muslims, churches for Christians etc. In the past, the people were more conscious about their institutes. These ideas give the new concept and call all religious groups into one ...