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In a work subtitled “How [this construct] Divides and Unites Us,” David Campbell and Robert Putnam attribute increased American tolerance for these constructs to the Aunt Susan Principle. To compare these constructs, Max Weber defined a continuum that evaluates “mode of membership” in them on a scale of “decision” to “birth”. Robert Bellah (10[1])proposed a “third (-5[1])time of trial” centered around presidential symbolism in the “civil” type of this construct. Emile (-5[1])Durkheim (-5[3])argued that totemism is the most basic form of this (10[2])construct. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])as a society modernizes, the presence and influence of what constructs decline, (-5[1])according to the secularization (-5[1])thesis? (10[3])■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: religions [accept faith; accept church; accept sects or denominations; accept civil religion; prompt on Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, or Protestantism by asking “what more general construct is that a form of?”]
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%22%91.56
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY989%0%44%95.75
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY7100%0%71%99.71
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Alex WyrickTennessee AGeorgia Tech A5210
Matthew BrayAuburn CTennessee B55-5
Robert FreemanSouth Carolina BEmory Oxford70-5
Ishaan KashyapGeorgia Tech CAlabama A71-5
Ishaan KashyapGeorgia Tech CAlabama A71-5
Ishaan KashyapGeorgia Tech CAlabama A71-5
Jeffery XuGeorgia Tech DAuburn A8110
Gannon RiceClemson ASouthern8110
Rafeed Rahman TurjyaGeorgia AAuburn B8210
Sean JacksonSouth Carolina AGeorgia Tech E8510
Jackson HopperMississippi State AEmory A97-5
John ShieldsClemson BFurman101-5
Nathan McWilliamsAlabama AGeorgia Tech C10210
Nathan McWilliamsAlabama AGeorgia Tech C10210
Nathan McWilliamsAlabama AGeorgia Tech C10210
Hayes BrownFurmanClemson B10310
Zachary KantEmory AMississippi State A10310
Monish JampalaGeorgia Tech BVanderbilt A10310
Daniel ChenEmory OxfordSouth Carolina B10310
Alina MooreTennessee BAuburn C10310
James ZhaoVanderbilt BBelmont10310