Sociology-Education and Religion
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- Animism
- belief in spirits capable of helping or harming people. may be in humans, animals, plants, wind. rtuals are feasting, dancing, clensing- 2 types of animism
- Church
- A relativly large well esxtablished religious oprganization that is integrated into society and does not make strict demands on members
- Civil Religion
- collection of beliefs, symbols, and rituals that sanctify dominant values of a society.
- compensatory education
- school program intended to improve academic performance of socially and academically disadvantaged children
- cult
- religious group that professes new religios belief, totally rejects society, and consists of members with extreme devotion to leaders
- Cultural imperialism
- practice of making minorities accept dominant groups culture
- Ethicalism
- type of relihion that emphasizes moral principles as a guide for living a righteous life-buddhism, confucianism, taoism, shintoism, meditation, freeing ones mind magokoro- bright and pure mind
- monotheism
- belief in 1 god`
- polytheism
- the belief in more then 1 god
- pygmalion effect
- impact of a teachers expectations on student performance
- sect
- relativly small religious group that sets itself apart from society and makes heavy demands on its members
- shamanism
- part of animism belief that a spiritual leader can comminicate with the spirits by acting as their mouthpiece or letting the soul leave the leaders body and enter the spiritual world
- theism
- type of religion that centers on a god or gods-christianity is world largest religion 2nd-islam-polytheistic faith is hinfuism-reincarnated-borm and reborn
- totemism
- part of animism-belief that a kindship exists between humans and and animal or even a plant
- tracking
- system of sorting students into diff groups according to past academic achievement