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Mada438:
--- Quote from: liladh on February 07, 2018, 03:27:34 pm ---Hey everyone, I really need help with my PIP ideas! It's getting later and later and I still haven't settled on an idea. My teacher is not giving me much assistance regarding my ideas so I thought I'd ask for help here!
I'm really interested in belief systems, especially cultic behaviour and also mormons (Church of Latter-Day Saints). I have a few ideas, but i'm wondering whether the topic should be more general and then use these belief systems or religions as like a case study, or have a really pin-pointed focus.
Here are some of my ideas and general brainstorming:
-the roles of religion as a social institution> Emile Durkheim>sacred and profane beliefs
-religiosity> the depth of people's religious feelings
-how growing religious secularism, western pop culture and changing forms of communication technologies have affected the mormon church
-something on how the book of mormon musical has affected the church
-something to do with cultic behavious
Thanks!
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Hey! Welcome to the forums!
Firstly, i think you need to write down ALL of your ideas, then have a look at this guide and this guideto kind of check weather you're on the right track. I'd try and write down various ways in which each of those topics relate to the society and culture course (e.g. what could your research methodologies be, what concepts does it link too, what are you hoping to find out, etc.)
In terms of relating to what you have there, i quite like the idea of looking at secularisation in australian society, and also the concept of religiosity and looking at fundamentalism.
Once you have a list of clearly thought out ideas. Try and think of a hypothesis, some focus questions, ideas for chapters and research methodologies.
Then come back here.
Hope this helps! ;D
angewina_naguen:
--- Quote from: liladh on February 07, 2018, 03:27:34 pm ---Hey everyone, I really need help with my PIP ideas! It's getting later and later and I still haven't settled on an idea. My teacher is not giving me much assistance regarding my ideas so I thought I'd ask for help here!
I'm really interested in belief systems, especially cultic behaviour and also mormons (Church of Latter-Day Saints). I have a few ideas, but i'm wondering whether the topic should be more general and then use these belief systems or religions as like a case study, or have a really pin-pointed focus.
Here are some of my ideas and general brainstorming:
-the roles of religion as a social institution> Emile Durkheim>sacred and profane beliefs
-religiosity> the depth of people's religious feelings
-how growing religious secularism, western pop culture and changing forms of communication technologies have affected the mormon church
-something on how the book of mormon musical has affected the church
-something to do with cultic behavious
Thanks!
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Hey there!
I think Mada438 covered most of what I was going to recommend. I love the Book Of Mormon Musical so it would be interesting to see you use it as a potential case study! You could dedicate a chapter for it and do a content analysis on it or even find articles/reviews that discusses religious representation within the musical and do content analyses on them ;D That's an idea you could pursue and still look at religion and its representation in contemporary society as a whole. I hope this helps and let me know how it goes!
Angelina :D
beatroot:
--- Quote from: liladh on February 07, 2018, 03:27:34 pm ---Hey everyone, I really need help with my PIP ideas! It's getting later and later and I still haven't settled on an idea. My teacher is not giving me much assistance regarding my ideas so I thought I'd ask for help here!
I'm really interested in belief systems, especially cultic behaviour and also mormons (Church of Latter-Day Saints). I have a few ideas, but i'm wondering whether the topic should be more general and then use these belief systems or religions as like a case study, or have a really pin-pointed focus.
Here are some of my ideas and general brainstorming:
-the roles of religion as a social institution> Emile Durkheim>sacred and profane beliefs
-religiosity> the depth of people's religious feelings
-how growing religious secularism, western pop culture and changing forms of communication technologies have affected the mormon church
-something on how the book of mormon musical has affected the church
-something to do with cultic behavious
Thanks!
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Hey! Just adding onto Mada438 and angewina_nagen's fabulous answers, imo I like the secularisation idea the best! Someone in my class did secularisation in Australian and discussed different factors contributed to secularisation (Western society, media, etc) and used Christianity as a focus study. The belief systems and ideologies is definitely a great area to start with. This will make it easier to incorporate SAC concepts into your PIP (conflict theory would be great to discuss in your PIP). A content analysis of the 'Book of Mormon' musical would provide an interesting take on your topic.
Though essentially you do need to figure out your hypothesis and your aim first to truly figure out what you want to prove in each chapter and in your PIP overall.
liladh:
Thanks so much guys, I'm feeling really inspired and i'm getting on to it now!!
Mia Badorrek:
Hi guys, If it's not too much bother, would you mind sparing a few minutes to fill out my PIP questionnaire on "Is the current rise of Western female superheroes reflective of gender equality or is it just another way to objectify women?"
Thank you!!!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16Qr6t9soEaF0gQL6xnppEcCYGJCutpahPp7tP8faTsM/edit
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