Durkheim believed that religion__________________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Durkheim was one of the first scientific sociologists who studied______________?

   A. suicide
   B. mental illness
   C. sex
   D. all of the above

2. Durkheim,s approach to religion involved the opposed concepts of_________________?

   A. good and evil
   B. children of light and children of darkness
   C. natural and supernatural
   D. sacred and profane

3. Durkheim viewed religion as a form of social_________________?

   A. recreation
   B. innovation
   C. ingratiation
   D. integration

4. Durkheim,s analysis suggests that so-called primitive people__________________?

   A. invented the concept of gods
   B. though they were gods
   C. projected their human ideals and personified them as gods
   D. saw themselves as clans of animals

5. Social Darwinists believed that________________?

   A. resources belong to all the people
   B. only the strongest persons should control the resources of a society
   C. the weak shall inherit the earth
   D. natural selection was a hoax

6. Max Weber believed that_______________?

   A. property was the only determinant of class
   B. class was based on exploitation of the masses
   C. class is closely related to life chances
   D. societies should have at least three classes

7. Marx believed that the state would vanish when_____________?

   A. the elite would work toward the good of the masses
   B. the lion would lie down with the lamb
   C. social classes ceased to exist
   D. all societies became capitalist

8. Many listeners to a 1938 science fiction radio program believed that Martians were really invading the Earth They fled into the streets in panic We would call their behavior______________?

   A. fashion
   B. rational legal behavior
   C. fantasy
   D. none of the above

9. Marx believed religion was used to_______________?

   A. help people improve their lives
   B. support the exploitation of the masses
   C. deal with reality
   D. attain immortality

10. In his book The Inevitability of Patriarchy Steven Goldberg asserts that_____________?

    A. matriarchal societies have never existed
    B. men perform the highest status non-maternal roles in all societies
    C. men dominate male-female relationships
    D. all of the above