2.6 The Relationship Between Social Change and Social Stability, and Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Organizations

• Social change maintains existing norms and structures.

  False
• Match the characteristics of social change and social stability:

  Social Change ↔️ Transforms culture and institutions

  Social Stability ↔️ Maintains existing norms

  Uncertainty ↔️ Created by social change

  Continuity ↔️ Provided by social stability
• Religious beliefs can challenge norms and promote reform
• What is social change according to the study material?

  Transformation over time
• Social change always leads to innovation and progress.


  True
• Religion can play a complex role in both social change and social stability
• Match the religious concept with its impact:

  Religious Beliefs ↔️ Reinforce traditional values

  Religious Practices ↔️ Mobilize communities
• Religious organizations always reinforce traditional values to preserve stability.

  False
• Religious organizations can mobilize communities for social reform and advocate for justice
• Religion can adapt its beliefs and practices to accommodate social changes, such as adopting new technologies
• Match the role of religion with its effect on social change or stability:

  Adaptation ↔️ Maintain relevance and influence

  Resistance ↔️ Reinforce existing social norms
• Religious organizations can mobilize communities for social reform by challenging existing norms and structures.


  True
• Social stability ensures a sense of continuity and predictability
• What are religious beliefs and religious practices?

  Shared ideas and rituals
• Social change refers to the transformation of culture, social institutions, and social structure
• Social stability drives innovation and progress.

  False
• Social stability ensures continuity and predictability within society
• Social change creates certainty and predictability within society.

  False
• Match the concept with its characteristic:

  Social Change ↔️ Transforms culture

  Social Stability ↔️ Maintains existing norms
• Religion always resists social changes to uphold tradition.

  False
• What is an example of a religious belief influencing social change?

  Catholicism on abortion
• What are two examples of how religious organizations may adapt or resist social changes?

  Women in leadership roles ||| Technological innovations
• Catholicism's teachings on abortion impact reproductive rights debates.


  True
• Religion can resist social changes to reinforce existing social norms and values.

  True
• What is the dual role of religious organizations in maintaining social stability and responding to social change?

  Maintain stability or adapt
• What is social change, and what are its key components?

  Transformation of culture and institutions
• Social stability resists change to uphold tradition.

  True
• Religion can play a complex role in both social change and social stability
• Religion can only contribute to social stability and cannot promote social change.

  False
• Religious organizations must resist all social changes to maintain stability.

  False
• Religious beliefs are shared ideas about the nature of reality, the existence of a higher power, and the purpose of life
• What aspect of Protestantism emphasizes hard work and individual responsibility?

  Ethic
• What is one example of a religious organization adapting to social change?

  Allowing women in leadership
• Match the stability-promoting action with its potential challenge:

  Reinforcing norms ↔️ May resist evolving norms

  Providing support ↔️ Can exclude marginalized groups

  Promoting cohesion ↔️ May lead to intolerance
• How can religious practices reinforce social stability?

  By preserving social arrangements
• What is one contemporary example of religious adaptation to social change?

  Accepting LGBTQ+ individuals
• Social stability refers to the maintenance of existing social structures, norms, and values
• Order the roles of religion in response to social change:

  1️⃣ Resisting social change to maintain stability

  2️⃣ Reinforcing social norms and values

  3️⃣ Adapting to social changes

  4️⃣ Updating beliefs and practices
• Religion can adapt to social changes to maintain its relevance.


  True
• Match religious examples with their impact on social change or stability:

  Catholicism on abortion ↔️ Impacts reproductive rights debates

  Protestant work ethic ↔️ Influenced economic systems

  Catholic gender roles ↔️ Challenges or supports women's equality