DOCTRINE

A major distinguishing features of each religion is the particular set of beliefs that their followers are required (or expected) to unquestionably accept as fact. There are findings on how social status appears to be associated with either the certainty of one’s religious beliefs or with the faithful acceptance of specific religious doctrines. Some studies have asked respondents to report on the strength of their commitment to their religious doctrines. Findings indicates that parental social status is positively correlated with the strength of one’s religious convictions. However, most studies of an individual’s own social status reached the opposite conclusion, i.e., that the strength of one’s religious beliefs is greater in the lower social strata than in the upper strata (social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power, social and political). | 'Doctrine' is a reproduction on something I have seen and thought about long ago and it remained in my mind.