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Chapter 9 Practice Quiz
Education
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What is NOT one of the reasons why Davies and Guppy believe we live in a schooled society?
The forms and functions of schools are growing more limited.
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There's been a growth in modern schooling.
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Schooling has been increasingly important to modern life.
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The forms and functions of schools are diversifying.
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Which of the following is NOT a latent function of education?
Legitimation
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Socialization
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Selection
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Literacy
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Which of the following answers is NOT one of the ways Durkheim argued education serves the needs of society?
Education is aligned with the aspirations of capitalists.
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Schools convey basic knowledge and skills that are useful for members of society.
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Provides individuals with training for the specific roles they'll take on later in life.
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Education should be aligned with an individual's occupational aspirations.
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Which term refers to the attestation of a qualification or competence issues to an individual by a party with the authority to do so, such as a university?
Credentialing
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Educating
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Certifying
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Testing
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What did Marx mean by the hidden curriculum?
The attestation of a qualification or competence issued to an individual by a party with authority to do so
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Planned interaction of pupils with instructional content and resources
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Informal aspects of the education system that promotes conformity with authorities
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Obvious and intended functions of the education system
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Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why individuals from low-income families don't perform as well academically as individuals from high-income families?
Differential manipulation
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Differential association
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Different expectations
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Differential preparation
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Streaming or tracking students might do which of the following?
Discourage learning among students streamed into the lower ability group
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Help students in the higher streaming group avoid boredom in the classroom
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Mix student achievement in classes
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Provide more challenge to teachers
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Which of the following is true about the relationship between education and gender?
Women make more money than men once they have completed school.
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Women tend to do better than men in the educational system.
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Women are overrepresented inn majors such as engineering.
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Women are better able than men to translate their degrees into earnings.
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What is cultural capital?
The non-economic social assets that promote social mobility
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The economic social assets that promote social mobility
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The collective value of all one's social networks
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The amount of money to economically invest in art
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What is social capital?
It is the non-economic social assets that promote social mobility
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It is the economic social assets that promote social mobility
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The collective value of all one's social networks
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The amount of money to economically invest in art
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Post-secondary enrolment in Canada is on the decline.
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Manifest functions of education are the obvious and intended functions of the education system.
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Durkheim believed one's education should be aligned with one's occupational aspirations.
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For Durkheim and others who focus on the socializing role of the education system, education plays a fundamental role in promoting social order and in creating stability in society.
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Weber believed specialization leads to an increasingly complicated set of certifications and degrees that allows people to access higher education.
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Streaming is the practice of placing students with comparable skills or needs together.
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A self-fulfilling prophecy is in the beginning a false definition of an individual's ability which then eventually becomes true.
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Canadian women currently do worse than men in terms of earning more undergraduate and advanced degrees.
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While women have made large gains in terms of attendance and completion of university degrees, women still make less than men once they've completed school.
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Shelly Cornell argues that widely shared cultural beliefs about gender and different kinds of competencies (like science and math) bias men's and women's perceptions of their own abilities, and their interests in pursuing these fields.
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