The correct answer is C.
<em>Secularism</em> is the principle of separation religion from the states. It means that the government should remain neutral on religious matters and should not enforce any type of religion at all. <em>The government should be religion-free and act on moral grounds only, not according to it's religious practices or beliefs.</em>
The merchant goes to church every week to practise his religion, he does not want, however, any religious influence on his business or the government in his city. He considers religion a private issue and he advocates secularism, meaning that all city officials' decisions should never be influenced by their religious beliefs. He wants his business to be neutral and not under the church's influence, he does not want the church to tell him what to and what not to do in his business.
The reason why sociologists say that <u>race is a social</u> construction is because what it means to be "white", "black", "Latino", "Asian", etc., is defined according to culture, time and the place. The meanings of these categories are changed over time. However, what does not change is that the racial groups are placed in a hierarchy, with white people or with lighter skin in the upper part; people of non-indigenous color subjected to people with lighter skin; Black and indigenous people in the lower part of the racial system. race is an externally imposed social category. Unlike ethnicity, which describes both aspects of ancestry as well as culture and personal identification, race is ascribed by society.
