AQA SOCIOLOGY - Paper 2 - Beliefs in Society - FUNCTIONALIST perspective of Religion

This pack contains two Powerpoint presentations:
1 - 39 Slide PowerPoint that covers the Functionalist View of Religion AND ‘Civil Religion’
2 - 5 slide PowerPoint that covers evaluation of the Functionalist view

The lessons are accompanied with detailed handouts that students complete during the sessions

The lessons cover:

Starter task - symbols and meaning

• Introduce key theorists
• Define: Value Consensus, Order, Solidarity
• Define and introduce: The Sacred, The Profaine
• Short reading and summative task to consolidation knowledge and understanding of The Sacred, The Profaine
• Totemism - case study: Arunta Clan
• What is a ‘Totem’
• Totemism and Clans
• Task - students to create their own clans, rules and totems that symbolise the values of the clan
• Reading / consolidation task
• The Collective Consciousness
  • Critiques of Durkheim’s view point

Malinowski

• Social Solidarity - explored and expanded upon
• Trobriand Islanders of the Western Pacific case study
• ‘God of the Gaps’
• Religion ‘At a time of life crisis’

Parsons
- Independent Reading task
- Positive functions of religion

Robert Bellah - Civil Religion

• Civil Religion in the USA
• Civil Religion in the UK
• Gapped handout- task

Assessment - 10 mark assessment task