In 2011, when announcing the death of Osama Bin Laden, President Barack Obama said, Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.. This message plays to the concept of
a. civil religion.
b. cult.
c. secularization.
d. mystical religion.
Question 2Facial hair or a chin strap slightly off angle is treated as a crime in the context of military boot camp. This situation suggests that something is criminal because
a. the group has defined it as such.
b. it causes harm to others.
c. deviance exists in every social setting.
d. there are no exceptions to the rule.
Question 3Weber maintained that once capitalism became established, religion would become a/an __________ factor in maintaining the system.
a. necessary
b. increasingly insignificant
c. sufficient
d. increasingly important
Question 4Sociologist Kingsley Dennis recounts the case of a South Korean girl harassed unmercifully over the Internet for not picking up after her dog. Her transgression was caught on tape and posted to the Internet. Dennis called this harassment
a. group think.
b. virtual vigilantism.
c. censorship.
d. a witch hunt.
Question 5Weber maintained that the Protestant ethic
a. caused capitalism to come into being.
b. led to the rise of fundamentalism.
c. was a significant ideological force in the emergence of capitalism.
d. must be present in a society if it is to achieve economic success.
Question 6Police officers employ __________ sanctions when they arrest people suspected of breaking the law.
a. positive formal
b. negative formal
c. negative informal
d. positive informal
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