Exam 12: Education and Religion.

The __________ focus on the classroom communication patterns and educational practices, such as labeling that affect students' self-concept and aspirations.

Because schools bring together people of similar ages, social class, and race/ethnicity, young people often meet future marriage partners and develop social networks that may last for many years. This is an example of the manifest function of socialization in education.

Across cultures and in different eras, many things have been considered __________, including invisible gods, spirits, specific animals or trees, altars, crosses, holy books, and special words or songs that only the initiated could speak or sing.

According to the text's discussion of religion's functions, __________.

As much as _____ of adults students that they bully others with some frequency during the school year.

Contemporary __________ suggest that education is responsible for teaching U.S. values. According to sociologist Amitai Etzioni, "shared" values (such as the dignity of all persons ought to be respected) should be transmitted by schools from kindergarten through college.

Define and discuss the four main categories of religion, and link them to the types of societies in which they tend to occur.

According to __________, the process of labeling is directly related to the power and status of those persons who do the labeling and those who are being labeled.

__________ focuses on principles such as truth, justice, affirmation of life, and tolerance for others, and its adherents seek an elevated state of consciousness in which they can fulfill their true potential.

Discuss the conflict perspective on education and explain cultural capital and class reproduction.

Which statement concerning education in the U.S. is false?

Analyze education from the conflict perspective.

__________ offer pre-baccalaureate programs for students planning to transfer to a four-year university, occupational education leading directly to employment, adult education and literacy programs, work-force and workplace development services, and support services to help students succeed.

A manifest function of education, is that schools transmit cultural norms and values to each new generation and play an active part in the process of assimilation, whereby recent immigrants learn dominant cultural values, attitudes, and behavior so that they can be productive members of society.

Efforts to bring about __________, which is the implementation of specific action to change the racial/ethnic and/or class composition of the student body, have failed in many districts throughout the country.

Compare and contrast the three sociological perspective as they relate to education.

In schools, teachers and administrators are empowered to label children in various ways, including grades, written comments on deportment (classroom behavior), and placement in classes. This example would be associated with __________ theorists.

In primary and secondary schools, students are taught specific subject matter appropriate to their age, skill level, and previous educational experience. At the college level, students focus on more detailed knowledge of subjects that they have previously studied while also being exposed to new areas of study and research. These examples depict the manifest function of education known as __________.

In their controversial book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life," Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray argue that intelligence is __________.

According to French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, students from diverse class backgrounds come to school with different amounts of __________, which refers to social assets that include values, beliefs, attitudes, and competencies in language and culture.