Which of these statements concerning the practice of embalming and preparation of the body for burial is true?
a. Embalming became popular as a result of the World War I practice of embalming the
bodies of soldiers before shipping them home from European battlefields.
b. The germ theory of disease had little impact on the popularity of the practice of
embalming the body after death.
c. In the 1920s it was the goal of many funeral directors to make the corpse look as
though it were alive.
d. None of the above.
c.
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Marx, unlike both Durkheim and Weber, saw religion:
a. as a source of social change. b. as a delusion deliberately fostered by the elite. c. from a strictly value-free position. d. as the source of community.
What evidence supports the conclusion that economic integration clusters around small regions?
a. that average distance that imports and exports travel rises as economic integration increases b. that average distance that imports and exports travel falls as economic integration increases c. that average distance that imports and exports travel stays relatively even as economic integration increases d. that average distance that imports and exports travel rises and falls in tandem with the business cycle
Conflict theorists typically emphasize
A. the promotion of consumption. B. the conferral of status. C. the digital divide. D. the enforcement of social norms.