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"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church." Many people still look to passages from the Christian Bible, like this one, to justify gender roles. Conflict theorists might argue that this is a ________ of religion because it ________

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Answer: Dysfunction

Promotes sexism

Explanation: Sexism is referred to as prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.

It is an offensive reminder of the way the culture sees women.

Generally Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. It can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls. It brought about gender roles, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another. From the question, critics may say that that place in the bible, calling on women to submit to their husband promotes sexism and since it is not readily accepted in the society, it is referred to as dysfunctional or a dysfunction.

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dysfunction; promotes sexism

Step-by-step explanation:

The conflict theory was suggested by Karl Marx. It explains that society remains in a state of perpetual conflict because of competition for limited resources and that social order is competition involving distribution of power and inequality and may only be maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. Conflict theorists from the above may only view the above Christian Bible passage as dysfunctional as it doesn't follow adequately with society, and sexist since it is impartial with gender qualities and favours the male over the female

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