Exam 16: Education

A major legacy of colonialism in the developing world is the high level of:

According to the textbook, U.S. high school graduation rates:

A stereotype threat occurs:

According to the "Globalization by the Numbers" infographic, which country leads in terms of mean years of schooling? [img]

Jonathan Kozol's (1991) study of American schools found that:

The "place" formed by the global network of computers where Internet interaction occurs is called:

Name and explain at least one source of the educational achievement gap in the United States.

Name and explain one way in which socioeconomic status might determine how well you will do in life.

What was one of the lessons of Jonathan Kozol's best-selling book Savage Inequalities?

According to Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, the hierarchical authority relationships within schools parallel those of:

As a process of assimilation, schooling and its focus on an "official" curriculum-common language and the facts of a common history and geography-:

Roy, a Korean American student, did better on his SATs than he anticipated, and he suspects part of the reason is that another student mentioned that Korean Americans have statistically higher scores than white students. Name and explain the phenomenon that sociologists might use to explain this situation.

Discuss the concept of intelligence and some of the attempts to measure it. Summarize the debate over the idea that IQ is genetically determined.

Briefly explain how the gender gap in education has changed in the past 20 years.

To the extent that schools help perpetuate social and economic inequalities across generations, they are part of the process of:

According to the "Globalization by the Numbers" infographic, which country leads in terms of proportion of persons enrolled in secondary education? [img]

In a counterargument to the claims made in The Bell Curve, a team of sociologists from the University of California at Berkeley asserted that the factor that is more important than intelligence in determining how well people do in life is:

Which of the following groups benefits from student tracking according to abilities?

Educational institutions are active participants in social reproduction because they:

Discuss how Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and habitus explain middle-class and upper-middle-class students' success in a school setting.