Many religious organizations retain their religious traditions and are critical of modernity; they tend to align with
a. fundamentalism
b. the Protestant Ethic
c. Gesellschaft
d. the Secularization Thesis
Question 2The specialized labor market is the term used to describe dividing the capitalist economy into two separate sectors that have different characteristics, different roles, and different rewards for laborers within each.
a. true
b. false
Question 3The presence of large, bureaucratic organizations with relatively stable production and sales, jobs requiring developed skills,
and good pay for highly educated people and unionization for others is characteristic of the secondary sector of the labor market.
a. true
b. false
Question 4Critics of the Secularization Thesis note that
a. religion is becoming less important
b. religious arguments are inherent in debates about subjects such as gay marriage, stem cell research, and evolution
c. gemeinschaft has not totally replaced gesellschaft.
d. the Protestant Ethic is no longer necessary to fuel Capitalism.
Question 5Regarding the three approaches to interpreting social movements, Zirakzadeh notes that
a. the approach of the 1940s through early 1960s, as that based most accurately on history, is best.
b. the approach of the 1960s is most efficacious, as it focuses on successful movements contemporary to that era.
c. the most recent approach is the most complete, given its inclusion of the earlier theoretical paradigms.
d. none of the approaches by itself gives a full or complete account of social movements.
Question 6A sweatshop is a substandard work environment where workers are paid less than the minimum wage, are not paid overtime premiums, and generally work in conditions that are violations of labor laws.
a. true
b. false