Sociology Pop Culture To Social Structure 3rd Edition By Brym – Test Bank

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Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a society, the content and intensity of religious beliefs, and the form and frequency of religious practices, are influenced by the

a. need to find meaning and purpose in the face of inevitable death.
b. structure of the human brain.
c. structure of society.
d. influence of faith and spirit.
e. human psychology.

ANS: c TYPE: conceptual PG: 255 SOURCE: modified LO: 1

2. Which of these is not a question that would be of interest to sociologists of religion?

a. Why does one religion predominate here, another there?
b. What beliefs that people hold are mostly likely to be true?
c. Why is religious belief more fervent at one time than another?
d. Under what circumstances does religion act as a source of social stability and under what circumstances does it act as a source of social change?
e. Are we becoming more or less religious?

ANS: b TYPE: conceptual PG: 255 SOURCE: modified LO: 1, 2

3. In the 2008 General Social Survey, _____ of respondents said they had no doubt that God exists.

a. 20 percent
b. 35 percent
c. 41 percent
d. 51 percent
e. 62 percent

ANS: e TYPE: factual PG: 256 SOURCE: modified LO: 2

4. The scope of religious authority has declined in the United States and many other parts of the world. This means that

a. religion governs fewer aspects of life than it used to.
b. most people have lost faith in God.
c. a majority of people do not think religion is important.
d. government has successfully controlled religion.
e. religion is disorganized.

ANS: a TYPE: applied PG: 256 SOURCE: pickup LO: 2

5. Organized religion used to be the main purveyor of formal knowledge and the most important agent of socialization aside from the family. Today that role is performed by _____.

a. the education system
b. the peer group
c. the criminal justice system
d. the economic system
e. the religious system

ANS: a TYPE: applied PG: 255 SOURCE: pickup LO: 2

6. The Super Bowl is an event that makes people feel part of something larger than they are. Durkheim would say that events like the Super Bowl create _____.

a. collective unconscious
b. collective effervescence
c. the sacred
d. the inner child
e. the transcendental conscience

ANS: b TYPE: conceptual PG: 256 SOURCE: modified LO: 1

7. According to Durkheim, when people come together and experience the sharing of values and sentiments, they are creating _____.

a. the collective effervescence
b. the collective conscience
c. the transcendental
d. the sacred
e. the community conscience

ANS: b TYPE: factual PG: 256 SOURCE: modified LO: 1

8. Durkheim called the religious or transcendental world _____.

a. the collective conscience
b. the collective effervescence
c. the sacred
d. the community zone
e. nirvana

ANS: c TYPE: factual PG: 256 SOURCE: pickup LO: 1

9. Durkheim called public practices that connect people with the sacred _____.

a. rites
b. rituals
c. displays
d. ceremonies
e. services

ANS: b TYPE: factual PG: 256 SOURCE: pickup LO: 1

10. The ritual objects that people use to symbolize the sacred are called _____ within Durkheim’s theory of religion

a. totems
b. rituals
c. displays
d. ceremonies
e. services

ANS: a TYPE: factual PG: 256 SOURCE: new LO: 1