Soc 001 - Introduction to Sociology » Fall 2022 » Quiz 10

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Question #1
Sects are
A.   fundamentalist organizations.
B.   offshoots that have broken off from established churches.
C.   devoted to a specific cause.
D.   followers of charismatic leaders.
Question #2
Religiosity is measured by sociologists using all of the following except
A.   secondary analysis of the U.S. census about current religious practices.
B.   by asking about people’s religious beliefs.
C.   asking how often people attend religious services.
D.   surveying people about their membership in religious organizations.
Question #3
Durkheim’s emphasis on rituals and shared meanings fits with which type of sociological theory?
A.   Exchange theory and functionalism
B.   Conflict theory and functionalism
C.   Functionalism and symbolic interactionism
D.   Symbolic interactionism and conflict theory
Question #4
Which statement about religion is accurate?
A.   Religion establishes norms for behavior.
B.   Religions are based on beliefs that are considered profane.
C.   Religion is noninstitutionalized.
D.   Religion is a feature of individuals.
Question #5
Which of these statements does not describe one of the functions of religion?
A.   Religion serves to preserve diversity and secularism.
B.   Religion establishes norms for behavior.
C.   Religion establishes moral proscriptions for behavior.
D.   Religion provides answers to questions of ultimate meaning.
Question #6
Church membership and attendance in the United States
A.   is higher for men than for women and higher for older people than younger people.
B.   is higher for younger people than for older people and higher for women than for men.
C.   is fairly uniformly spread throughout the population.
D.   is higher for women than for men and higher for older people than younger people.
Question #7
Which of the following major world religions is polytheistic?
A.   Catholicism
B.   Buddhism
C.   Hinduism
D.   Protestantism
Question #8
Emile Durkheim argued that religion is
A.   a distinct threat to social cohesion.
B.   in direct opposition to the other institutions that exist in society.
C.   functional for society because it reaffirms social bonds.
D.   a tool for class oppression.
Question #9
Weber’s analysis of the Protestant ethic demonstrates
A.   the weaknesses of Emile Durkheim’s views on the functions of religion.
B.   the matriarchal nature of Protestantism.
C.   that religious beliefs are able to shape secular dimensions of national culture.
D.   that religion does serve as a type of drug for people who are disadvantaged in life.
Question #10
To _____, religion promotes stratification since it generally supports a hierarchy of people on earth and the subordination of humankind to an imagined divine authority.
A.   Karl Marx
B.   Emile Durkheim
C.   Auguste Comte
D.   Max Weber
Question #11
Karl Marx believed that religion encourages passivity and acceptance of one’s circumstances.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #12
Religious identification tends to be correlated with one’s social class.
A.   True
B.   False
Question #13
Cults generally exist outside of the mainstream of society.
A.   False
B.   True
Question #14
There has been an increasing influence of religion on politics in the United States recently.
A.   False
B.   True

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