Chapter 9 Practice Quiz

. 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.

There's been a growth in modern schooling.

Schooling has been increasingly important to modern life.

The forms and functions of schools are diversifying.

. Which of the following is NOT a latent function of education?

Legitimation

Socialization

Selection

Literacy

. 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.

Schools convey basic knowledge and skills that are useful for members of society.

Provides individuals with training for the specific roles they'll take on later in life.

Education should be aligned with an individual's occupational aspirations.

. 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

Educating

Certifying

Testing

. 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

Planned interaction of pupils with instructional content and resources

Informal aspects of the education system that promotes conformity with authorities

Obvious and intended functions of the education system

. 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

Differential association

Different expectations

Differential preparation

. Streaming or tracking students might do which of the following?

Discourage learning among students streamed into the lower ability group

Help students in the higher streaming group avoid boredom in the classroom

Mix student achievement in classes

Provide more challenge to teachers

. Which of the following is true about the relationship between education and gender?

Women make more money than men once they have completed school.

Women tend to do better than men in the educational system.

Women are overrepresented inn majors such as engineering.

Women are better able than men to translate their degrees into earnings.

. What is cultural capital?

The non-economic social assets that promote social mobility

The economic social assets that promote social mobility

The collective value of all one's social networks

The amount of money to economically invest in art

. What is social capital?

It is the non-economic social assets that promote social mobility

It is the economic social assets that promote social mobility

The collective value of all one's social networks

The amount of money to economically invest in art

. Post-secondary enrolment in Canada is on the decline.

True

False

. Manifest functions of education are the obvious and intended functions of the education system.

True

False

. Durkheim believed one's education should be aligned with one's occupational aspirations.

True

False

. 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.

True

False

. Weber believed specialization leads to an increasingly complicated set of certifications and degrees that allows people to access higher education.

True

False

. Streaming is the practice of placing students with comparable skills or needs together.

True

False

. A self-fulfilling prophecy is in the beginning a false definition of an individual's ability which then eventually becomes true.

True

False

. Canadian women currently do worse than men in terms of earning more undergraduate and advanced degrees.

True

False

. 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.

True

False

. 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.

True

False

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