SOCIO Chapter 16 Quiz

Which of the following features was part of the social context of early-nineteenth-century America, a time when religious faiths were becoming networks for social change?

Today, sociologists tend to study religion from a ________ perspective. This allows them to look at everyday human interactions, practices, and beliefs on a small scale.

Which of the following contains evidence to support the conflict perspective of religion?

Which of the following is a central belief of evangelical Protestants?

Which of the following defines a church?

According to Karl Marx, one of the ways a factory owner (the owner of the means of production) would control his or her workers (the propertyless) would be through religion. This was done by:

Which of the following is an example of secularization?

A Christian missionary goes to a tribal society and shares the Christian faith. The missionary teaches that there is one God who exists in heaven, apart from the natural world. The tribal people insist that the sacred is everywhere, an essence in trees, wind, and animals. The missionary is expressing a(n) ________ view of religion; the tribal people are expressing a(n) ________ view.

Some sociologists of religion, such as Kelly Besecke, study how people reconcile scientific knowledge with religious beliefs. Besecke found that American Christians practice "reflexive spirituality." This means that people:

Which of the following is an example of how social solidarity and collective conscience function?

If Peter Berger read this data about belief in God by country, he would conclude that:

The difference between evangelical Protestants and fundamentalist Christians is that fundamentalists:

To understand the role of religion in people's lives and how individuals value and experience their faiths, which type of sociological approach should we adopt?

Roberto has read Richard Dawkins's books for many years and decides to devote his life to advancing Dawkins's vision of humanism. Which of the following is Roberto likely to do?

Jeremy used to be religious, but after he spent a summer doing antipoverty advocacy work in New Orleans, he became an atheist. He says, "I agree with Karl Marx! Religion really is the opium of the masses." Which of the following statements reflects Jeremy's agreement with Marx?

Marissa is a Catholic of Mexican descent and has recently immigrated to the United States. She studies the civil rights movement wanting to apply her findings to her immigrant community as they seek upward mobility and inclusion in the United States. She is most likely to:

Max Weber likened the history of society to a train and ideas to the switchmen of the tracks. What does this mean?

Which of the following statements reflects Durkheim's thoughts about religion?

Max Weber wondered how ________ entered the modern world when the premodern worldview was governed by ________

As is the case within Christianity, denominational divisions exist within Islam. The main division is between which two groups?

A branch of Christianity believed that their souls were selected for salvation before birth. This is known as:

In the 1960s, Peter Berger wrote that pluralism would cause a ________ in which religion would lose its legitimacy as the ________ came apart. The result would be psychological malaise and a loss of meaning to life.

Which question is a sociologist of religion most likely to ask?

Why do megachurches use sales techniques such as formatting the Bible like a magazine, with photographs of attractive teens and advice about fashion and friendship?

Tammy is a student who does fieldwork in a low-income neighborhood near her college. She interviews women who say they are very religious but don't go to church. She interprets these data after reading Susan Crawford Sullivan's research, which explains that low-income religious women often don't go to church both because of logistics and because of stigma. Because of this, their religion is:

According to Émile Durkheim, religion is created by ________, and religious expressions represent ________.

Maria and Steve are on summer vacation in Greece. They want to go into an old church to view the artwork inside, but before they are allowed to enter the church, a volunteer church worker asks them both to cover their bare legs and arms and provides them with coverings. This example illustrates how:

During the 1960s, some social scientists touted the secularization theory. This theory predicted:

When asked if they attend church services at least once a month, about 60 percent of Americans say they do. But when daily diaries of people's activities are examined, rates of church attendance are much lower. This problem of self-reporting of positive behaviors is known within sociology as:

The trend in industrial nations toward a separation between church and state, a belief in rationality and science, and the movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief is known as: