Zygmunt Bauman takes this further: "In an encounter with that familiar world ruled by habits and reciprocally reasserting beliefs, sociology acts as a meddlesome and often irritating stranger. ... Ritual means that we do not need much self-scrutiny or self-analysis, when things are repeated often enough they become familiar and because they are familiar they present no problem and are self explanatory (Bauman, 1997:13-16). ... Gil Richard Musolf (2001:277-295) in an analysis on John Dewey's book Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology says that "conduct is in...

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Marx's analysis and critique of religion is perhaps one of the most famous and most quoted by theist and atheist alike. ... However, Marx's monomania did give birth to a fruitful school of analysis, which remains relevant (although its sibling political activism has not persisted as successfully). ...

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