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” in them on a scale of “decision” to “birth”. Robert Bellah proposed a “third time of trial” centered around presidential symbolism in the “civil” type of this construct. (-5[2])Emile Durkheim argued that totemism is the most basic (-5[1])form of this construct. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])as a society modernizes, the presence and influence of what constructs decline, according to the secularization thesis? (10[4])■END■ (10[2])

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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Summary

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
Vedh Ramesh (DII)Penn A (DII)Columbia J (DII)69-5
Ben Spirtas (DII)Maryland B (DII)Rowan A (DII)69-5
Nishna Makala (DII)Maryland A (DII)Rutgers A (UG)78-5
Neilesh Shroti (UG)Columbia BFordham A82-5
Olin Bose (DII)Columbia A (UG)NYU A (UG)8510
Sidhant Chaliha (DII)Princeton A (UG)Bard A (UG)10210
Alex Lin (DII)Rutgers BNYU B10210
John Shelly (DII)Rowan A (DII)Maryland B (DII)10210
Emma Victoria Byron (DII)Rutgers A (UG)Maryland A (DII)10210
Jason Qin (DII)Columbia J (DII)Penn A (DII)10310
Saif Virani (UG)Fordham AColumbia B10310