In the United States, a prominent instance of segregation is that of
What will be an ideal response?
African Americans in the South prior to the 1960s.
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1) moral community 2) state religion 3) civil religion 4) functional equivalent of religion 5) religious experience 6) modernization 7) Protestant ethic 8) anti-Semitism 9) theocracy 10) nirvana 11) reincarnation 12) jen 13) charisma 14) denomination 15) secular A) a government sponsored religion, also called ecclesia B) a sudden awareness of the supernatural or a feeling of coming in contact with God C) in Hinduism, spiritual perfection that marks the end of the cycle of death and rebirth D) Robert Bellah's term for religion that is such an established feature of a country's life that its history and social institutions become sanctified by being associated with God E) a government based on the principle that God is king, God's laws are the statutes of the land, and priests are the earthly administrators of God F) in Confucianism, sympathy or concern for other human beings G) a "brand name" within a major religion H) the transformation of traditional societies into industrial societies I) belonging to the world and its affairs J) a group of people who are united by their religious practices K) prejudice and discrimination directed against Jews L) in Hinduism and Buddhism, the return of the soul after death in a different form M) a substitute that serves the same function or meets the same needs as religion N) an extraordinary gift from God; a "magnetic" personality that draws people to the individual O) Weber's term to describe the ideal of a self-denying, highly moral life, accompanied by hard work and frugality
The USDA based the poverty threshold on the 1955 Household Food Consumption Survey, which found that families of three or more people spent about ______ of their after-tax income on food.
A. one-third B. one-fourth C. one-half D. two-thirds
In some societies, a man will marry a woman and her sisters. This is a form of
A. group marriage. B. polygyny. C. monogamy. D. polyandry.
According to Coltrane, which of the following statements best represents contemporary married fathers?
a. They report valuing their families over their jobs and are spending the same amount of time doing paid work and family work as married mothers. b. They report valuing their families over their jobs despite spending more time in paid work and less than in family work than married mothers. c. They report valuing their jobs over their families and spend more time in paid work and less than in family work than married mothers. d. They report valuing their families over their jobs and spend more time in family work and less time in paid work than married mothers.