Exam 12: Education and Religion.

Discuss the functionalist perspectives on religion.

According to the text's discussion of unequal funding as a source of inequality in education, __________.

Because schools bring together people of similar ages, social class, and race/ethnicity, young people often meet future marriage partners. This latent function of education results in __________.

Outline opportunities and challenges in colleges and universities.

Some functions of education are ___________, which are open, stated and, intended goals or consequences of activities within an organization or institution.

Religious beliefs and rituals are __________ representations, group-held meanings that express something important about the group itself.

Polarization is the process by which religious beliefs, practices, and institutions lose their significance in sectors of society and culture. It involves a decline of religion in everyday life and a corresponding increase in organizations that are highly bureaucratized, fragmented, and impersonal.

Summarize trends in religion in the United States in relation to fundamentalism.

Tracking refers to the practice of assigning students to specific curriculum groups and courses on the basis of their test scores, previous grades, or other criteria. Conflict theorists believe that tracking seriously affects many students' educational performance and their overall academic accomplishments.

There has been a decline in the number of parents who are teaching their own children through home schooling.

Students may learn information in school that contradicts beliefs held by their parents or their religion. Debates over the content of textbooks and library books typically center on information that parents deem unacceptable for their children. This illustrates the latent function of education known as __________.

Political leaders often use religion to justify their decisions, stating that they have prayed for guidance in deciding what to do. This informal relationship between religion and the state has been referred to as __________.

__________ is a process of social selection in which class advantage and social status are linked to the possession of academic qualifications.

Working-class and poverty-level income parents endow their children with more cultural capital than do middle- and upper-income parents. Because cultural capital is essential for acquiring an education, children with more cultural capital have fewer opportunities to succeed in school.

The __________ refers to the everyday, secular, or "worldly" aspects of life. Secular beliefs have their foundation in scientific knowledge or everyday explanations.

Horticultural societies were among the first to practice __________, which is a belief in a single, supreme being or god who is responsible for significant events such as the creation of the world.

Per-capita spending on public and secondary education varies widely from state to state. In part, this is because the local property tax base has been eroding in central cities as major industries have relocated or gone out of business.

Which of the following statement relating to bullying is false?

Most religions attempt to answer fundamental questions such as those regarding the meaning of life and how the world was created. Most religions also provide comfort to persons facing emotional traumas such as illness, suffering, grief, and death.

Civil religion is not tied to any one denomination or religious group; it has an identity all its own. The U.S. flag is the primary sacred object of our civil religion.