Social Structures
This past week, we discussed a number of ways the we can think about religion is associated with education levels int he US. Here is a report dealing with the association between religion and education around the world. Please review the following report (Links to an external site.) This is a report from the PEW research center that surveyed people from all over the world and from many different demographics. It discuses the overall average numbers of years of education and looks at gender as a possible complicating factor. Note- there are many pages to this report, Lets just stick to the overall findings on page 1 for this paper. In this paper (following the same formatting guidelines as always), please do the following- Summary a. Give a brief overview of the findings of the report Discovery b. Do you find anything about the report surprising? Any groups quite a bit higher or lower than you thought? Why do you think that is? Reflection c. Why do you think this information in particular is important for sociologists of religion? Do you think that some religions may emphasize eduction for some groups more than others? Are there benefits to knowing this information in comparison to what we know about the U.S.? Analysis d. What about the social structures in these countries? What do you think explains some countries having higher education compared to lower? Why do you think there are gaps exist by gender? What does it say for a society that some groups have high levels of people with no education at all? What do you think explains the changes by generation? You are welcome to add more sociological reflections to the the paper beyond the minimum, however… be mindful of social contexts. Because one religion might have higher levels of inequality, it doesn’t make that religion good or bad. You are NOT to promote or condemn a particular worldview. Be a scientist, do not use values to judge these things. You are welcome to use external sources to support your discussion, but they must be academic sources and cited correctly.
