{"id":18495,"date":"2023-05-03T18:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/consider-a-religion-that-you-are-familiar-with-and-discuss-some-of-its-beliefs-behaviors-and-norms-how-do-these-meet-social-needs-what-is-sociology-how-can-sociology-help-us-understand-ourselves-a\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T18:46:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:46:14","slug":"consider-a-religion-that-you-are-familiar-with-and-discuss-some-of-its-beliefs-behaviors-and-norms-how-do-these-meet-social-needs-what-is-sociology-how-can-sociology-help-us-understand-ourselves-a","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/consider-a-religion-that-you-are-familiar-with-and-discuss-some-of-its-beliefs-behaviors-and-norms-how-do-these-meet-social-needs-what-is-sociology-how-can-sociology-help-us-understand-ourselves-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider a religion that you are familiar with and discuss some of its beliefs, behaviors, and norms How do these meet social needs? What is sociology? How can sociology help us understand ourselves and others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto;\">The<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">religion<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>I am most familiar with is<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">Christianity<\/strong>. Some of their beliefs and<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">behaviors<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>have modified because these are based on ethics and morality. On the other hand,<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">Islam<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>is a religion unknown to me, one of its strangest customs is to pray 5 times a day or make a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; color: rgb(250, 250, 253);\">What religion am I familiar with?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto;\">The religion I am familiar with is<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">Christianity<\/strong>. Since I was a child, my parents and my family have instilled in me the principles and beliefs of this<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">religion<\/strong>. We have attended various ceremonies such as the holy mass every Sunday or the December novena to honor the birth of baby Jesus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto;\">\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto;\">In general,<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">Christianity<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>and Catholicism have implemented certain moral and ethical beliefs that have impacted the<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">behavior<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>of Western society. In general, people have many sacred beliefs that prevent them from celebrating Easter because it is the date on which Jesus died. Additionally, people are afraid of God because he is the omnipotent being who is everywhere watching people&#8217;s behavior to decide whether they go to heaven or hell.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto;\">\n<h3 style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: 700; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto; color: rgb(250, 250, 253);\">What religion differs from Christianity?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; cursor: auto;\">One of the<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">religions<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>that differs from Christianity is Islam. In this religion they have some customs that are very different from Christianity, such as praying 5 times a day or making a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in their lives. In<span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: 700; cursor: auto;\">Christianity<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto;\">&nbsp;<\/span>there are no customs similar to these.<\/p>\n<p><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><br style=\"cursor: auto;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;religion&nbsp;I am most familiar with is&nbsp;Christianity. Some of their beliefs and&nbsp;behaviors&nbsp;have modified because these are based on ethics and morality. On the other hand,&nbsp;Islam&nbsp;is a religion unknown to me, one of its strangest customs is to pray 5 times a day or make a pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime. What religion am I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[681],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18495"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18495"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}