Functionalists argue that religion serves the function of social control and support for the government. religion maintain social control by conferring on the norms and laws of a society.

By conferring the supernatural legitimacy on the norms and laws you strengthen the social control as now the laws and norms are in connection to some force that is larger than man. Also according to Emile Dukrheim the religion is the thing that promotes social solidarity while other thinkers also propose that religion contributes to the social cohesion.

european feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries. broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.

japanese feudalism. the era of feudalism in japan took place from the 12th through 19th centuries. during that period local rulers, either powerful families or military warlords, dominated the land, while the emperor was merely a figurehead and not a significant political presence.

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