Lesson 03B3.4.1

03B3.4.1 Debates on secularisation: belief, practice and power of religion Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 10

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The 20 questions

  1. Which term describes the declining social significance of religion in modern societies?

    • Pluralism
    • Globalisation
    • Secularisation
    • Fundamentalism

  2. Who argued that religion undergoes internal secularisation, becoming increasingly worldly rather than spiritual?

    • Bryan Wilson
    • Emile Durkheim
    • Steve Bruce
    • Max Weber

  3. Which sociologist famously claimed that religion would survive by becoming privatised?

    • Auguste Comte
    • Karl Marx
    • Thomas Luckmann
    • Richard Dawkins

  4. Which concept suggests people now pick and mix religious beliefs rather than following one tradition?

    • Religious consumerism
    • Collective conscience
    • Religious monopoly
    • Secular fundamentalism

  5. According to Steve Bruce, what key indicator shows long-term British secularisation?

    • Increased clergy numbers
    • Declining church attendance
    • New cathedral builds
    • Rising baptism rates

  6. What does Grace Davie call people who claim to believe in God without attending church?

    • Active secularists
    • Believing without belonging
    • Belonging without believing
    • Radical fundamentalists

  7. Which term describes the loss of religion's influence over major social institutions like the state?

    • Sacralisation
    • Polarisation
    • Integration
    • Differentiation

  8. If a couple marries in a registry office instead of a church, which secularisation process is shown?

    • Sacralisation
    • Institutional differentiation
    • Religious revival
    • Internal secularisation

  9. A person who visits a medium and practices yoga while identifying as Christian demonstrates what concept?

    • Dogmatism
    • Monotheism
    • Fundamentalism
    • Syncretism

  10. When a local council replaces traditional Christmas displays with winter festivals to avoid offence, this shows:

    • Sacred canopy
    • Religious monopoly
    • Clerical dominance
    • Public secularisation

  11. If a traditional denomination modernises its services to attract youth, what is this process called?

    • Internal secularisation
    • Structural differentiation
    • External secularisation
    • Religious resurgence

  12. Which thinker famously predicted that science would eventually replace religion entirely?

    • Auguste Comte
    • C.S. Lewis
    • Martin Heidegger
    • Talcott Parsons

  13. What did Peter Berger mean by the collapse of the sacred canopy?

    • Growth of church power
    • Rise of fundamentalism
    • Enforcement of state religion
    • Loss of shared plausibility

  14. Which sociological perspective argues that religion maintains social order rather than secularising away?

    • Feminism
    • Action theory
    • Marxism
    • Functionalism

  15. Which phrase did Davie use to describe those who attend church socially but lack personal faith?

    • Spiritual seekers
    • Believing without belonging
    • Secular militants
    • Belonging without believing

  16. What major global trend challenges the Eurocentric view that secularisation is inevitable?

    • Universal atheism
    • Global religious resurgence
    • Economic homogenisation
    • Global climate change

  17. Which data source is most commonly used by sociologists to measure religious practice in the UK?

    • Crime surveys
    • Medical records
    • Census data
    • Tax returns

  18. According to secularisation theorists, why has clergy authority declined in modern society?

    • Increase in miracles
    • Divine intervention
    • Rise of rationalism
    • Stricter dogma

  19. What term describes the shift from accepting religious truth to demanding empirical evidence?

    • Mystification
    • Rationalisation
    • Enchantment
    • Superstition

  20. Which concept suggests religion remains vibrant globally despite declining influence in Western Europe?

    • Institutional erasure
    • Secular fundamentalism
    • Religious revitalisation
    • Structural differentiation

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