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Sociology 2 Test 3
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| _______ is that which people define as an ordinary element of everyday life. | Profane |
| _______ is that which people set apart as extraordinary, inspiring awe nd reverence. | Sacred |
| _______ is a social institution involving beliefs and practices based on a conception of the sacred. | Religion |
| _______ is formal, ceremonial behavior. | Ritual |
| _______ is belief anchored in conviction rahter than scientific evidence. | Faith |
| _______ is an object in the natural world collectively defined as sacred. | Totem |
| _______ is a fusion of Christian principles with political activism, often Marxist in character. | Liberation Theology |
| _______ is a type of religious organization that stands apart from the larger society. | Church |
| _______ is a church formally allied with the state. | State Church |
| _______ is a church, independent of the state, that recognizes religious pluralism. | Denomination |
| _______ is a type of religious organization that stands apart from the larger society. | Sect |
| _______ is extraordinary personal qualities that can infuse people with emotion and turn them into followers. | Charisma |
| _______ is a religious organization that is largely outside a society's cultural traditions. | Cult |
| _______ is the belief that elements of the natural world are conscious life forms that affect humanity. | Animism |
| _______ is the belief in a single divine power. | Monotheism |
| _______ is the belief in many gods. | Polytheism |
| _______ is the importance of religion in a person's life. | Religiousity |
| _______ is the historical decline in the importance of the supernatural and the sacred. | Secularization |
| _______ is a quasi- religious loyalty binding individuals in a basically secular society. | Civil Religion |
| _______ is a conservative religious doctorine that opposes intellectualism and world accommodation in favor of restoring traditional, otherworldly religion. | Fundamentalism |
| _______ is the social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills, and cultural norms and values. | Education |
| _______ is formal instruction under the direction of specially trained teachers. | Schooling |
| _______ is assigning students to different types of educational programs. | Tracking |
| _______ is a lack of the reading and writing skills needed for everyday life. | Functional Illiteracy |
| _______ is integrating special students into the overall educational program. | Mainstreaming |
| The work "School" has the same root as the Greek work for _______. | Leisure |
| The continent of _______ has the most countries with high rates of illiteracy. | Africa |
| In the United States, about _______ of the adult population has a high school diploma. | 85% |
| _______ is a latent function of schooling. | Providing Child- care |
| _______ are the ethnic group in the U.S. with the highest dropout rate. | Hispanics |
| _______ refers to the practice of including people with disablities in regular educational classes and programs. | Mainstreaming |
| _______ are public schools that have the freedon to try new programs and policies. | Charter Schools |
| _______ encourage students to specialize in specific areas of study. | Magnet Schools |
| _______ is a state of complete physical, mental and social well- being. | Health |
| _______ is the study of how health and disease are disturbed throughout a society's population. | Social Epidemiology |
| _______ is an intense form of dieting or other unhealthy method of weight control driven by the desire to be thin. | Eating Disorder |
| _______ refers to assistance in the death of a person suffering from an incurable disease. | Mercy Killing |
| _______ is the social institutional that focuses on combating disease and improving health. | Medicine |
| _______ is an approach to health care that emphasizes that prevention of illness and takes into account a person's entire physical and social environment. | Holistic Medicine |
| _______ is a medical care system in which patients pay directly for the services of physicians and hospitals. | Direct- Fee System |
| _______ is a medical care ststem in which the government owns and operates most medical facilities and employs most physicians. | Socialized Medicine |
| _______ is an organization that provides comprehensive medical care to subscribers for a fixed fee. | HMO |
| _______ refers to patterns of behavior defined as appropriate for people who are ill. | Sick Role |
| Approximately _______ of U.S. adults are overweight. | Two- Thirds |
| Members of hunting and gathering societies rarely lived to age _______. | Forty |
| In the world's poorest nations today, most people die before reaching their _______. | Teens |
| In low- income nations the most common causes of death is _______. | Infectious Diseases |
| In poor nations, about _______ of children die before their first birthday. | 10 percent |
| In Western Europe and North America, people began to understand the causes of infectious diseases around _______. | 1850 |
| In today's high- income nations _______ is the most common cause of death from disease. | Cancer |
| _______ is an example of a chronic illness. | Cancer |
| The highest risk of death among young people in the US is _______. | Accidents |
| _______ has a strong statistical link to life expectancy. | Gender |