Chapter 12-Education and Religion

Question 1

Education

Answer 1

Social institution dedicated to formal process of transmitting culture from teachers to students

Question 2

Schools teach students

Answer 2

Manners
Punctuality
Creativity
Discipline
Responsibility

Question 3

Hidden curriculum

Answer 3

Teaching students to submit to authority and accept the dominant ideology

Question 4

Correspondence principle

Answer 4

Schools tend to encourage students to embrace their social class position and thereby perpetuate the existing class structure

Question 5

Credentialism

Answer 5

Describes an increase in the lowest level of education to enter a field

Question 6

Teacher expectancy effect

Answer 6

Teachers expectations about a students performance can affect the students actual achievements

Question 7

Tracking

Answer 7

Practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups on the basis of their test scores and other criteria

Question 8

Religion

Answer 8

Social institution dedicated to establishing a sense of shared identity, encouraging integration, and offering believers meaning and purpose

Question 9

2 approaches to religion

Answer 9

What religion is
What religion does

Question 10

Sacred

Answer 10

Encompass elements beyond everyday life that inspire respect, awe, and fear

Question 11

Profane

Answer 11

Ordinary and commonplace

Question 12

Religious beliefs

Answer 12

Statements to which members of a particular religion adhere

Question 13

Fundamentalism

Answer 13

Ridged adherence to core religious doctrines

Question 14

Religious rights

Answer 14

Practices required/expected of members of a faith

Question 15

Religious experience

Answer 15

Feeling/perception of being in direct contact with ultimate reality

Question 16

Religious organizations

Answer 16

Ecclesia
Denomination
Sect
Cult

Question 17

Ecclesia

Answer 17

Religious organization that claims to include most/all members of a society and is recognized as the national/official religion

Question 18

Denomination

Answer 18

Large, organized religion that isn’t officially linked to the state/government

Question 19

Sect

Answer 19

Small religious group that has broken away from some other religious organizations to renew what it consider the original vision of the faith

Question 20

Established sect

Answer 20

Religious group that is the outgrowth of a sect, remains isolated from society

Question 21

Cult

Answer 21

Small, alternative religious group that represents either a new faith community or a major innovation in an existing faith

Question 22

Secularizaton

Answer 22

Involves religion diminishing influence in the public sphere

Question 23

Protestant ethic

Answer 23

Disciplined commitment to worldly labor driven to bring glory to God

Question 24

Liberation theology

Answer 24

Advocated the use of church in a political efforts to eliminate poverty, discrimination, and other forms of injustice

Question 25

Religion functions

Answer 25

Seeks to secure greater integration within society Enforces existing beliefs and practices Provides believers and communities with a sense of meaning and purpose