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Question #1

Sects are

A. offshoots that have broken off from established churches.

B. devoted to a specific cause.

C. followers of charismatic leaders.

D. fundamentalist organizations.

Question #2

Religiosity is measured by sociologists using all of the following except

A. surveying people about their membership in religious organizations.

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

C. asking how often people attend religious services.

D. by asking about people’s religious beliefs.

Question #3

Durkheim’s emphasis on rituals and shared meanings fits with which type of sociological theory?

A. Functionalism and symbolic interactionism

B. Conflict theory and functionalism

C. Symbolic interactionism and conflict theory

D. Exchange theory and functionalism

Question #4

Which statement about religion is accurate?

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

B. Religion is noninstitutionalized.

C. Religion establishes norms for behavior.

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 moral proscriptions for behavior.

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 fairly uniformly spread throughout the population.

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

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

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. Protestantism

B. Hinduism

C. Buddhism

D. Catholicism

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

B. the matriarchal nature of Protestantism.

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

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

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. Emile Durkheim

B. Max Weber

C. Auguste Comte

D. Karl Marx

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. False

B. True

Question #13

Cults generally exist outside of the mainstream of society.