Who is believed to be the first to analyze religion for its impacts on society?

A. Karl Marx
B. Max Weber
C. Émile Durkheim
D. Auguste Comte


C. Émile Durkheim

Sociology

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Which of the following is least likely to be a function of primary groups?

a. provide emotional support through caring, personal, and intimate relationships b. accomplish specific purposes beyond the relationship itself c. contribute to the socialization process d. ease adjustment to changing social environments e. promote conformity and contribute to social control

Sociology

A mature concept of death involves1. universality.2. irreversibility.3. empiricism.4. causality.

A. 1, 2, and 4 B. 2, 3, and 4 C. 1, 3, and 4 D. 1, 2, and 3

Sociology

Which of the following best distinguishes race from ethnicity?

A. Race is an imposed social status that others act toward whereas ethnicity is an enacted behavior. B. Race is socially constructed, but ethnicity is not. C. Ethnicity is socially constructed, but ethnicity is not. D. Race is widely accepted to be socially constructed, but ethnicity is widely accepted to be natural for a given group.

Sociology

Anti-Semitism is a form of

A. stereotype. B. prejudice. C. racial profiling. D. discrimination.

Sociology