Some believe that religion is important because it adds meaning to people’s lives and provides answers to difficult questions. a sociologist following which theory would agree with this statement?

Structural functionalist or functionalism

Explanation:

The functionalist perspective is a theory that looks at the society stability being built up by diffrent social structures.

Instead of looking at micro-level it focuses on macro-level Influence of social structures and their influence in shaping the behavior of the society.

These structure are social institutions such as government, family,media, education,economy and religion. These are all responsible for building a well established and stable society.

According to this theory all these institutions are present for the purpose of maintaining the functionality of society and if any of them were to stop serving that purpose their existence will cease.

Each institution needs to play its role effectively otherwise there will be no stability or other institutions will be negatively affected.

Family raise the kids and send them to school where government provide the education to them. They grow up find jobs and start paying their tax to the government which helps the government to run the state. Now imagine if parent were not to send the kids to school and they end up not getting employment this will affect the tax paid to the government.

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