According to Marx, under what condition would religion disappear?
Correct answer B. A socialist revolution removed the need for capitalist ideology
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What did Herberg’s 1955 study of religion in America suggest?
Correct answer D. All of the above
To whom did the Nation of Islam movement mainly appeal?
Correct answer B. African-Americans who felt excluded from the ethnic melting pot in the USA
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According to Lawrence Stone’s research, what was happening to the nuclear family before industrialisation?
Correct answer C. Had begun to emerge through the separation of work and home life
What does the growth of new social movements suggest?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Which term best describes the pattern of marriage found in contemporary Britain?
Correct answer C. Serial monogamy
Which ethnic group in contemporary Britain has the smallest proportion of one-parent families?
Correct answer D. Indian
What was the average age of women at first marriage in England and Wales in 1971?
Correct answer D. 22.6
In Anthony Giddens’ ‘The Transformation of Intimacy’, which of these is NOT presented as a feature of intimate relationships in post-traditional societies?
Correct answer A. Liquid desire
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Which of these religions is polytheistic?
Correct answer C. Hinduism
What is the process called by which schools help to reproduce social and economic inequalities from one generation to the next?
Correct answer C. Cultural reproduction
Which is the largest university in the UK?
Correct answer B. The Open University
What is a group whose members are linked by ancestry, marriage or adoption called?
Correct answer A. Family
Norbert Elias argued that effective communication systems have survival value in evolutionary terms. How did he illustrate this in humans?
Correct answer A. By studying the face
Under which system do people trace descent and pass on property through the mother’s side of the family?
Correct answer A. Matrilineal
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How is ethnomethodology defined?
Correct answer B. The study of the methods people use to make sense of the world
Which theory holds that two opposite personality traits give a sense of completeness when the people who have them come together?
Correct answer C. Complementary needs
On what are the most common master statuses based?
Correct answer B. Gender and race
Which statement about divorce is correct?
Correct answer B. Appears to lead to greater family disorganisation
What is a social role?
Correct answer D. Socially defined expectations of people in a given social position