Sociology Test 3 Review 3

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Test 3 Review 3 Sociology

Question 1: A stratification system in which equality of opportunity allows people to rise or fall to a position that matches their talent and effort
Treatment for the Well to Do
Meritocracy
Affirmative Action

Question 2: They oppose special treatment for any group
Opponents of Affirmative action
Advocates of meritocracy
Advocates of affirmative action
Advocates of special treatment for the well to do

Question 3: Argue less privileged students benefit from the money brought in through legacy and development admissions
Advocates of special treatment for the well to do
Advocates of Affirmative Action
Opponents of affirmative action
Advocates of meritocracy

Question 4: Argue that they should not have to pay for wrongs committed as long as 300 years ago
Advocates of affirmative action
Advocates of special treatment for the well to do
Advocates of meritocracy
Opponents of affirmative action

Question 5: Argue it compensates for historical injustices such as slavery and expulsion
Advocates of affirmative action
Advocates of meritocracy
Opponents of affirmative action
Advocates of special treatment for the well to do

Question 6: Refers to number of years of school students complete
Education attainment
Educational performance
Educational achievement

Question 7: Refers to how much students actually learn
Educational achievement
Educational attainment
Educational performance

Question 8: Stresses the training role of schools
Socialist perspective
Conflict Perspective
Functional Theory

Question 9: Argue that schools distribute the benefits of education unequally, allocating most of the benefits to children from upper class and higher status racial and ethnic groups
Socialist Perspective
Conflict Theorists
Functionalists

Question 10: T/F: Apart from the distribution of educational resources, the kind of students who attend schools and the quality of its teachers influence the quality of education
True
N/A
False

Question 11: Involves sorting students into high ability, middle ability, and low ability classes based on the results of IQ and other tests
Division
Basing
Tracking

Question 12: These affect IQ tests
All of the above
Schooling experience
Home environment
Community environment

Question 13: IQ is...
Mainly Genetic in origin
Partly genetic and partly social in origin
Mainly Social in Origin

Question 14: T/F: There are no culturally biased items found in the SAT and ACT
False
True
N/A

Question 15: Examine the social composition of the student body in community college and find a somewhat disproportionate number of students from lower socioeconomic strata and minority ethnic groups
Conflict theorists
Rationalists
Functionalists

Question 16: Deny that the growth of community colleges increases upward mobility and equality in American society
Conflict theorists
Rationalists
Functionalists

Question 17: Conflict theorists argue that community colleges ______ prevailing patterns of social and class inequality by directing students from disadvantaged backgrounds away from four year institutions and thus decreasing the probability that they will earn a four year degree and a high status position in society.
Disregard
Reinforce
Disagree

Question 18: T/F: Community colleges do not change the overall pattern of inequality in American society
True
N/A
False

Question 19: In some respects, ___ are doing better than ___ in the American education system. However, ____ earn more science/math degrees and PhDs than ____ do.
Men, Women; Women, Men
Women, Men; Women Men
Women, Men; Men, Women
Men, Women; Men Women

Question 20: Refers to the harmful impact of negative stereotypes on the school performance of disadvantaged groups
Professionalization
Stereotype threat
Cultural Capital

Question 21: Refers to widely shared, high status cultural signals used for social and cultural exclusion
Cultural Capital
Professionalization
Stereotype Threat

Question 22: Sociologists factor what for mass schooling?
All for the above
Democratic Revolution
Globalization
Protestant Reformation
Rise of the modern state

Question 23: Spurred popular literacy and the rise of mass education via religion
Protestant reformation
Modern State
Globalization
Democratic revolution

Question 24: The percentage of African Americans increased more than 4.5 times during the Brown v. Board of Education ruling
Modern State
Democratic Revolution
Globalization
Protestant Reformation

Question 25: Officials correctly viewed education as an instrument for instilling loyalty and teaching young people a common national language, identity, and values. Also another component to promote compulsory mass education was industrialization.
Globalization
The Modern State
Protestant Reformation
Democratic Revolution

Question 26: Transnational corporations require a more literate and highly educated world population to do business.
The protestant Reformation
The democratic revolution
Globalization
The modern state

Question 27: Refers to the fact that it takes ever more certificates and diplomas to qualify for a given job
Professionalization
Global Impact
Credential information

Question 28: Takes place when members of an occupation insist that people earn certain credentials to enter the occupation. Ensures standards and keeps professional earnings high.
Mass Media
Professionalization
Cedential Inflation

Question 29: Proposals to improve schools include:
All of the above
Government initiatives
Redistributing and increasing school budgets
Comprehensive preschools for children and job training and job creation for disadvantaged parents
Local initiatives

Question 30: Includes the mentoring movement and challenging minority students, giving them emotional support and encouragement, preparing a curriculum that gives more recognition to the accomplishments of their group, and creating an environment in which they can relax and achieve.
Economic Reform and Comprehensive Preschools
Local initiatives
Redistributing and Increasing School Budgets

Question 31: Local initiatives and redistributing and increasing school budges has been met only with limited success. Instead, local school reform initiatives need to be augmented by policies that improve the social environment of young, disadvantaged students ______ school
Outside of
After
Before and Outside of
After and Outside of
Before

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