Question

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” (-5[1])in them on a scale of “decision” (-5[1])to “birth”. (-5[1])Robert Bellah proposed a “third time of trial” centered around presidential symbolism in the “civil” type of this construct. Emile Durkheim argued that totemism is the most basic (10[1])form of this construct. (10[1])For 10 points, as a society modernizes, the presence and influence of what constructs decline, (10[1])according to (10[1])the secularization (-5[1])thesis? (10[2])■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY14100%0%50%93.21
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY9100%0%33%87.22
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY1100%0%0%79.00
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY7100%0%57%99.86
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY9100%0%22%68.33

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Carter Pisocky (DII)Michigan D (UG)Michigan State A 41-5
Jackson Gangle (DII)Miami B (UG) Ohio State A (UG) 48-5
Mikolai Davis (DII)Ohio State B (DII)Michigan A (UG)50-5
Beckett Gilmore (DII)Jefferson County Scholars (DII)Michigan B (UG)7810
Anthony Yin (DII)CWRU B (DII) CWRU A (UG) 8210
Evan Davies (UG)Miami A (UG) Michigan C 9710
Adam Monusko (UG)Michigan A (UG)Ohio State B (DII)9910
Kara Braun (DII)Michigan State B Ohio State C (DII) 101-5
Oliver Thompson (DII)CWRU C (UG)Miami C (DII) 10210
Kate Merritt (UG)West Virginia A (UG) West Virginia B (UG) 10210
Anton Akroush (DII)Michigan State A Michigan D (UG)10310
Pranet Sirkonda (DII)Ohio State C (DII) Michigan State B 1030
Jacob Goodson (DII)Ohio State A (UG) Miami B (UG) 10310