sociology quiz #4

What is the main conclusion about the relationship between educational attainment, earnings, and unemployment rates?

As educational attainment increases, earnings increase and unemployment rates decrease.

The term discrimination is defined in the text as:

Prejudiced action against a group of people.

According to Pierre Bourdieu, ______ is our social connections to others and the benefits those connections confer.

Social capital

What is the school-to-prison pipeline?

The process whereby children are "funneled" directly from schools into prison as a result of growing up in communities with mass incarceration

A racial minority group is defined as

a group that is systematically denied the same access to power and resources available to the dominant groups of a society

The concept hidden curriculum can be defined as:

A type of nonacademic knowledge that one learns through informal learning and cultural transmission.

Education achievement is

How much you have learned in terms of reading, writing, arithmetic

One measure of education, educational attainment, is defined as

Number of years of school completed

Which sociologist studied how cultural capital helps an individual navigate their culture?

Pierre Bourdieu

what is assimilation defined as?

The process by which a minority individual or group takes on the characteristics of the dominant culture.

Which group has the highest proportion of members in jail?

african american men

what sociological perspective argues that the educational system reinforces and perpetuates social inequalities arising from differences in class, gender, race and ethnicity?

conflict theory

A socially defined category based on common language, religion, nationality, history, or another cultural factor is called...

ethnicity

which group has the highest high school dropout rate?

hispanic students

According to the social construction of race school of thought, race is:

not biologically identifiable

Which of the following is NOT a manifest function of education?

social networks

Max believes that most people's racial beliefs are based on images conveyed in popular media since many people never meet members of certain races for themselves. Max's perspective is:

symbolic interactionist

The term for ability grouping in education where students are placed in high or low achieving classes.

tracking

According to Michelle Alexander, do we live in a colorblind or post-racial society?

yes

Which group of female college graduates had the highest loan debt?

african american women

Which group had the highest earnings in 2015?

asian men

Cedric's uncle believes that racism and discrimination have made a positive impact on society - but only in the lives of those who are members of the dominant group. Which sociological perspective is Cedric's uncle coming from?

functionalism

According to the readings, what is the New Jim Crow?

mass incarceration of black and brown people

An židentity that is only relevant on specific occasions and does not significantly impact everyday life.

symbolic ethnicity

t or f: women have to earn a PhD to earn as much (lifetime earnings) as men with a bachelor's degree

true