Week 7 Chapter 12

Question 1

Tracking

Answer 1

dividing students into groups that receive different instruction on the basis of perceived similarities in ability

Question 2

Hidden Curriculum

Answer 2

traits of behavior or attitudes that are learned at school but not included within the formal curriculum, for example, gender differences

Question 3

Theism

Answer 3

a belief in one or more supernatural deities

Question 4

Profane

Answer 4

that which belongs to the mundane, everyday world

Question 5

Secular Thinking

Answer 5

worldly thinking, particularly as seen in the rise of science, technology, and rational thought in general

Question 6

Secularization

Answer 6

a process of decline in the influence of religion

Question 7

Religious Economy

Answer 7

a theoretical framework within the sociology of religion that argues that religions can be fruitfully understood as organizations in competition with one another for followers

Question 8

Sect

Answer 8

a religious movement that breaks away from orthodoxy and follows its own unique set of rules and principles

Question 9

Liberation Theology

Answer 9

an activist Catholic religious movement that combines Catholic beliefs with a passion for social justice for the poor