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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. by asking about people’s religious beliefs.

B. asking how often people attend religious services.

C. secondary analysis of the U.S. census about current religious practices.

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. Conflict theory and functionalism

B. Symbolic interactionism and conflict theory

C. Exchange theory and functionalism

D. Functionalism and symbolic interactionism

Question #4

Which statement about religion is accurate?

A. Religion is a feature of individuals.

B. Religions are based on beliefs that are considered profane.

C. Religion establishes norms for behavior.

D. Religion is noninstitutionalized.

Question #5

Which of these statements does not describe one of the functions of religion?

A. Religion establishes moral proscriptions for behavior.

B. Religion serves to preserve diversity and secularism.

C. Religion provides answers to questions of ultimate meaning.

D. Religion establishes norms for behavior.

Question #6

Church membership and attendance in the United States

A. is higher for women than for men 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 men than for women and higher for older people than younger people.

Question #7

Which of the following major world religions is polytheistic?

A. Catholicism

B. Hinduism

C. Buddhism

D. Protestantism

Question #8

Emile Durkheim argued that religion is

A. a tool for class oppression.

B. a distinct threat to social cohesion.

C. in direct opposition to the other institutions that exist in society.

D. functional for society because it reaffirms social bonds.

Question #9

Weber’s analysis of the Protestant ethic demonstrates

A. that religion does serve as a type of drug for people who are disadvantaged in life.

B. that religious beliefs are able to shape secular dimensions of national culture.

C. the weaknesses of Emile Durkheim’s views on the functions of religion.

D. the matriarchal nature of Protestantism.

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. Max Weber

B. Emile Durkheim

C. Karl Marx

D. Auguste Comte

Question #11

Karl Marx believed that religion encourages passivity and acceptance of one’s circumstances.

A. False

B. True

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.