Exam 13: Education and Religion

How does the author propose we inspire teachers to be more accountable in motivating their students to achieve higher standards?

A sociologist who studied face-to-face interactions in the classroom between teachers and students would be emphasizing which sociological perspective?

What are some of the family functions that educational systems have greatly affected and even replaced in American society?

In the United States today,nearly half of all college freshmen have an overall high school grade point average of 4.0,twice what it was in 1970. What is the reason for this increase in students with high grades?

Why did public education spread and develop a strong support system in the United States following the beginning of the Industrial Revolution?

One of the functions performed by schools is to promote a sense of national identity and stabilize the political system. This function is referred to as ________.

The cultural transmission of values is a latent function of education.

What two qualities do IQ tests measure?

George Farkas discovered that girls and Asian American students receive higher grades than their academic equals because they know how to signal their teachers they are better students.

Next week,Abraham and Hazel will attend the bar mitzvah of their nephew. Their nephew's bar mitzvah is an example of a religious ________.

Providing child care and bringing about social integration are examples of the manifest functions of the public school system.

When employers use diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for jobs,even through the diploma or degree may be irrelevant to the actual work,it becomes a ________ society.

According to the research of George Farkas,which students were MOST successful at signaling teachers that they were better students and deserved better grades?

Karl Marx was an avowed atheist who characterized religion as "the opium of the people."

Why do cults and sects meet with greater hostility by members of society than church and ecclesia?

What is the concept that some jobs require few skills and can be performed by people of less intelligence?

Between 1996 and 1997,the scores of everyone who took the SAT in previous years improved. What was the reason for this improvement?

Conflict theorists see religion as being the means of social change and an instrument to establish a perfect society.

Tracking is a form of gatekeeping in which students are sorted by their perceived abilities rather than their achieved abilities.

Higher grades given for the same work or a general rise in student grades without a corresponding increase in learning is known as __________.