According to the text's discussion of civil religion, _____________________
a. civil religion is tied to the most popular religious group in a society
b. because of the separation of church and state, all civil ceremonies in the United States lack any religious quality
c. the U.S. flag is a sacred object within the nation's civil religion
d. there is public consensus about the importance of civil religion
c
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Social stratifi¬cation is the arrangement of society into a series of layers or strata on the basis of an unequal distribution of societal resources, prestige, or power, such that the stratum at the top has the most resources
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
If we assume that social forces influence individuals in society, and if we observe U.S. society as consisting in part of values of activity, work, progress, and leisure, we should expect to observe retirees seeking out activities that provide satisfaction and a sense of identity. This is most closely observed and explained by ______.
A. disengagement theory B. activity theory C. political economy of aging D. continuity theory
Who officially coined the term sociology in 1838?
A. Auguste Comte B. Henri Saint-Simon C. Karl Marx D. Ibn Khaldun
Measures of variability, such as the variance and standard deviation, are heavily influenced by the presence of one or more
A) average scores. B) computational formulas. C) variables. D) outliers.