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Grace Riestra Claire Davie (born 1946) is a British sociologist who serves as professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Exeter. [1] She is the author of the book Religion in Britain Since 1945: Believing Without Belonging. [2]
Belonging is a strong feeling that exists in human nature. [1] To belong or not to belong is a subjective experience that can be influenced by a number of factors within people and their surrounding environment. [1] A person's sense of belonging can greatly impact the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual emotions within themselves.
For example, some continue believing without belonging to a church, [6] others turn to alternative spiritualities [8] and others, as discussed by Possamai, turn to consumer based religions partly based on popular culture, what he calls "hyper-real religions."
Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without belonging (Blackwell, 1994) Davies, Rupert E. et al. A History of the Methodist Church in Great Britain (3 vol. Wipf & Stock, 2017). online; Gilley, Sheridan, and W. J. Sheils. A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present (1994) 608pp excerpt and text ...
A social norm is a shared standard of acceptable behavior by a group. [1] Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. [2]
Payton Gendron, who also became a white supremacist without belonging to any group, murdered 10 people and wounded three others at a Buffalo supermarket in May 2022 because, as he later confessed ...
Social Security is the U.S. government's biggest program; as of June 30, 2024, about 67.9 million people, or one in five Americans, collected Social Security benefits. This year, we're seeing a...
Conceiving a cognitive alternative through thinking about utopias without belonging to a specific ingroup is found to enhance collective action intentions. [6] Furthermore, utopian thinking has the potential to instigate the formation of entirely new groups, thereby strengthening motivations for collective action through the tie of group ...