The Half-Way Covenant of 1662: a. allowed Baptists and Quakers to attend, but not join, Puritan churches. b. did not require evidence of conversion to grant a kind of church membership. c. permitted anyone who paid a tithe to be baptized in a Puritan church. d. set up civil government in Massachusetts. e. gave women limited voting rights in Puritan congregations.

Urban growth invariably feeds increased commercialization and industrialization. it requires continually expanding land areas. when urbanization rates are high, and countries do not have the institutional and managerial capacities or economic wherewithal to manage such rapid growths, they exert intense pressure on the types and nature of the resulting settlements. they contribute to the development of overcrowded slums and shanty towns without adequate essential services and necessary infrastructure.-by asit k. biswas and cecilia tortajada

The three sociological perspectives include the beginner’s mind, culture shock, and the sociological imagination