Societal belief systems play an important role in guiding human behaviour. Individuals in society, including Canadians, use beliefs to guide behaviour because they provide authority, stability and predictability regarding issues that are important and/or controversial.

Each society has fundamental belief systems from which people draw the core of their personal beliefs and behaviours. These collective belief systems are the basis for a society's worldview. Individual beliefs may vary somewhat from society's worldview, but if there are huge differences, deviant individuals will find that sanctions will be used to force conformity.

A worldview is necessary to the orderly functioning of a society because it determines:

• what things are worth working for (purposes)
• what things are worth believing (values)
• those ideas that are acceptable (based on values)
• those things considered beautiful, pleasurable, fun, tragic, and/or comic (aesthetics)
• those things that are worth enforcing (rules and laws).

Through time, the worldview of a society will change. For this class, we will begin by looking at the worldview from the Roman perspective. Hey ppl whats happinen

Given the reading and what you have discovered about the Roman Empire, what was the Roman Worldview?