Religion seeks to instill commonly accepted behavior. Individuals use religion as a framework within which actions will likely be accepted.
A role is a set of responsibilities or functions that an individual or group is expected to perform within a specific context or organization. Roles help define expectations, divide tasks, and clarify relationships within a given structure.
Hegel
Sociologists study society by looking at the effect of institutions on the individual. A specific example would be a sociologist who looks at the ways that religion influence and shape an individual's life.
Religion is a very important and integral part of Society. Without religion there is no Society
Herbert Gans identified a number of social, economic, and political functions that the poor perform for society in his research on poverty. He argued that the poor help maintain a low-wage labor force, provide inexpensive goods and services, and serve as a scapegoat for societal problems.
Citizenship means: the character of an individual viewed as a member of society; behavior in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen
The earliest religion in society was animism.
They had rulers of each individual city, priests, merchants, and laborers, with primitive writing, wheels, religion, and complex farming.
A society without religion will be a ship in the ocean without compass and rudder.
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion was created in 1949.
International Society for the Sociology of Religion was created in 1989.
The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion was created in 1993.