Sociology Test 3b

Question 1

education

Answer 1

social institution through which society provides its members with important knowledge, including basic facts, job skills and cultural norms and values

Question 2

schooling

Answer 2

formal institution under direction of specially trained teachers

Question 3

functions of schooling

Answer 3

socialization
cultural integration
social placement
latent function schooling (child care, create networks)

Question 4

symbolic interaction approach to education

Answer 4

explains how stereotypes can shape what goes on in classroom, self-fulfilling prophecy; blue/brown eyed experiment 1968

Question 5

social conflict approach to education

Answer 5

causes and perpetuates social inequality
social control
standardized testing
school tracking
inequality
access to higher education
greater opportunity
privilege and merit

Question 6

problems in schooling

Answer 6

discipline and violence
student passivity
dropping out
academic standards
grade inflation

Question 7

school tracking

Answer 7

assigning students to different types of educational programs

Question 8

functional illiteracy

Answer 8

lack of reading and writing skills needed for everyday living

Question 9

current issues with education in US

Answer 9

school choice
home schooling
schooling people with disabilities
adult education
teacher shortage

Question 10

mainstreaming

Answer 10

integrating students with disabilities into the overall educational program

Question 11

What is the literacy rate in India?

Answer 11

34%

Question 12

How many people in Japan finish high school? In the US?

Answer 12

95%

87%

Question 13

How many people from the US go to college? And what percentage of those people actually finish?

Answer 13

70%

30%

Question 14

illiteracy is linked to what?

Answer 14

high levels of poverty

Question 15

How many colleges and universities are there in the US? How many of them are community colleges?

Answer 15

4500

1700

Question 16

teachers at colleges and universities are…..

Answer 16

focused on research

Question 17

teachers at community colleges are….

Answer 17

focused on teaching

Question 18

characteristics of bureaucratic schooling

Answer 18

rigid uniformity
rigid expectations
little individual responsibility
numerical ratings
specialization

Question 19

What percentage of people on welfare dropped out of high school? How many in prison?

Answer 19

50%

80%

Question 20

what percentage of kids are functionally illiterate?

Answer 20

33%