According to researchers cited in the text, new religious movements emerge because
a. they resolve a sense of moral ambiguity in modern industrial society.
b. they are a consequence of the excessive emphasis on altruism in American Protestantism.
c. they are geared toward people whose heritage comes from agriculture.
d. they are an outgrowth of the frontier movement.
e. there is too much emphasis on the church as a supportive community in the traditional denominations from which their converts come.
A
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A. a suburb B. a megalopolis C. a metropolis D. a mega-region
Krista Harper's study was carried out:
A. On a Dakota Indian reservation in the U.S. B. In a predominantly African American inner-city community in Chicago. C. In a Roma ("gypsy") community in Hungary. D. In an "untouchable" village in India. E. In an Irish Travelers' neighborhood in the periphery of Dublin.
Which sociological perspective would be most likely to study the bestowal of status that activists assume in their new social roles created through social movements?
A. interactionist perspective B. conflict perspective C. functionalist perspective D. epidemiological perspective
Technologies are developed not only to solve a current problem; they also may:
a. make a current problem greater than it was before the technology b. create new opportunities and the desire to do what was previously unimagined c. be developed to solve what no one thought was a problem d. be prevented from solving a problem, because they make the solution too easy