How did Marx view religion?
What will be an ideal response?
Marx felt that while humans created religion, they act as if it is something beyond their control, as if they were forced to conform to it. The ruling class uses religion to justify its advantages while the lower classes are lulled into acceptance of their situation by religious beliefs.
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a. differential systems of privilege and disadvantage. b. prejudice. c. stereotypes. d. the presence of bigotry.
Hochschild and Machung note that women have more of an economic need for marriage than men do
a. True b. False
Which of the following terms refers to a point of view that shows us how society affects the experiences and choices of individuals?
A. social patterns B. sociological imagination C. comparative perspective D. social problems approach
Which of the following is a change related to the creation of a worldwide movement toward the predominance of the nuclear family and the breakdown of extended-family systems and other types of kinship groups?
a. the spread of the idea of romantic love b. the power and influence of the antiabortion movement c. large-scale migration from urban to rural areas d. the development of autonomous local governments in areas previously controlled by centralized governments