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