NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
Question
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Sociologist who believes that religion “opium of the masses”
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Emile Durkheim
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Max Weber
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Sigmund Freud
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Karl Marx
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In the mid-19th century, Karl Marx wrote that religion is “the opiate of the masses” – disconnecting disadvantaged people from the here and now, and dulling their engagement in progressive politics.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marx’s most well-known observation concerning religion is that it is ‘the opium of the people’. The meaning would seem to be clear: opium is a drug that dulls the senses and helps one forget the miseries of the present. So also with religion.
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