Explain how religion can function as a force for preserving social order. Can religion also function as a force for social change? Use examples to illustrate how religion can serve both as an agent of order and as an agent of change.
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a. the demolition of most old mental hospitals. b. the release of people from mental hospitals into local communities. c. the integration of mental hospitals on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender. d. the combining of mental hospitals and prisons in one facility.
Conflict and functionalist models of social change are most useful at the macro level of social analysis
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Which of the following is true of the effect of the postmodern ideals in Japan?
A. Younger Japanese men and women are less supportive of the idea of cohabitation than their American counterparts. B. Divorce rates in Japan are at the lowest. C. Percentage of women who cohabit has declined rapidly since the 1970s. D. Unmarried Japanese women in their twenties are more negative about marriage than are their American counterparts.
According to Arline Geronimus, what factor explains the low birth weight of children of Black women?
A. negative health behaviors B. social stressors C. biological abnormalities D. not waiting until their 20s or early 30s to give birth