ISS1120 Pret-Test 3

Social classes are:

best compared in all situations with a layer cake.

Most subjects in social science can be isolated for purposes of study:

but in reality they are not isolated.

The Emancipation Proclamation changed the legal status of slaves:

but not their social status.

An open-class system is one in which

class lines are not definite.

The most striking expansion of education in the twentieth century has been in the:

colleges and universities.

Many argue that there has been a(n. _____________ in the effectiveness of education over the past decades.

decline

Any class system is somewhat inconsistent with the:

democratic ideal of equal opportunity.

Peggy McIntosh argues that the current educational system:

does not provide a collaborative learning environment.

In the U.S. in the late nineteenth century we developed a so-called:

unitary school system.

In an estate system, the position of an individual in society is nearly always:

inherited from parents.

Caste:

is a rigid class distinction based on birth or wealth.

The poverty threshold will be:

lower for an individual than for a family.

The number of social classes recognized as existing by social scientists is:

not generally agreed upon by social scientists.

As a rule, the most important factors in determining social class are:

occupation, wealth and income

U.S. public education is designed to teach citizens to be literate so people can learn about politics and public policy to:

vote more intelligently and to choose leaders more wisely.

Accountability of charter schools is achieved by:

performance tests.

Max Weber argued that the basis of class was:

property, prestige and power.

The dual thrust of U.S. education includes the development of both individuality and student:

socialization.

Jim Crow laws were part of the:

systematic legal segregation of blacks.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided that at an undergraduate level admission points were too much like affirmative action. The court also held that in admission decisions colleges could:

take race into account.

U.S. educational institutions are:

a product of their history.

During the nineteenth century the number immigrants coming to the U.S. were about:

...

The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed public school segregation in:

1954

Defining poverty is easy for social scientists.

False

Karl Marx believed capitalistic exploitation would lead to an increase in the condition of the worker.

False

Max Weber argued that property is the sole basis of class. Selected Answer:

False

Senior citizens are not likely to be a major political force in the twenty-first century.

False

The Equal Rights Amendment was ratified by two-thirds of the states.

False

The U.S. economic class system is strongly developed. Selected Answer:

False

The apartheid system is not like a caste system.

False

The expression "liberal education" is associated with the attempt to give students a narrow specialized education.

False

The unemployment rate among high school dropouts is roughly the same as for high school graduates.

False

The year 2000 was the first time the U.S. Census Bureau changed its race classification system.

False

Women in the U.S. are referred to as a minority group because there are less women than men in the population.

False

What effect is reform in public assistance programming believed to be having?

If it continues it will decrease the number of people on welfare.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1896 which was based on the so-called separate-but-equal doctrine was:

Plessy v. Ferguson.

After World War II the number of two-year colleges rose rapidly.

True

American interest in education goes back to earliest colonial times.

True

Britain has a national curriculum, tested by national exams.

True

Community colleges are no longer regarded primarily as institutions preparing students to enter four- year colleges.

True

Ideally U.S. education is a fundamental building block of U.S. democracy.

True

In the early 1990s, when immigration into the United States reached its peak, some 1 million persons were arriving every year.

True

Most early Arab immigrants were from Lebanon and Syria.

True

Most modern industrial societies do not have formal stratification systems.

True

Of the 52 million U.S. citizens who identify as having Spanish origins, 9 percent gave Puerto Rico as their place of origin.

True

The average earnings of a woman are still less than the average for a man.

True

The lessening of stratification often is accompanied by social unrest because that reduction focuses attention on the unfairness of the system.

True

The people of every society can always be divided into groups.

True

Today, almost 100 percent of children from the ages of five to seventeen are in school at least some days every school year.

True

Today, slightly less than half of the students who entered college as first-year students failed to get degrees.

True