ch.9 religion and education
A study released in May 2011 showed that, among men and women who graduated from college between 2006 and 2010, men out-earned women by an average of more than ________ each year.
$5,000
Researchers noted that educational resources, including money and quality teachers, are not distributed equitably in the United States, and attributed ________ of the performance differences between other countries' and the United States' low rankings to differences in social background.
20 percent
An example of ________ would be Indigenous nature worship as in the Shinto tradition
animism
___ teaches that we create our own suffering and the path out of suffering lies with us changing our perception of ourselves
buddhism
Some ________ specialize in certain fields, such as the arts or science, while others are more generalized
charter schools
The sacred text for ________ is the Bible, and although followers of other faiths share many of same historical religious stories, their beliefs verge.
christianity
The ________ of the education system reinforces the positions of those with higher cultural capital and serves to bestow status unequally. You were correct. Multiple Choice Questionhidden curriculummanifest functionsinstitutionalized embodiment
hidden curriculum
In ________, there is also a belief in karma, or the notion that spiritual ramifications of one's actions are balanced cyclically in this life or a future life (reincarnation).
hinduism
The house of worship in ________ is called a mosque.
islam
The proponents of ________ both before and after its formalization include Francis of Assisi, Leo Tolstoy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Desmond Tutu.
liberation theology
exist in other parts of the world, especially in South Korea, Brazil, and several African countries, but the rise of this phenomenon in the United States is a fairly recent one that has developed primarily in California, Florida, Georgia, and Texas.
megachurches
In the case of ________, the school board maintained that the children's "exceptional" needs, which included mental retardation and mental illness, precluded their right to be educated for free in a public school setting, and argued that the cost of educating these children would be too expensive and that the children would therefore have to remain at home without access to education.
mill vs board of education of district of columbia
The concept of ________ explains why a student might begin to "live down to" their negative labeling
self-fulfilling prophecy
Critics of ________ argue that students should never move to the next grade if they have not mastered the skills required to "graduate" from the previous grade.
social promotion
The idea that religion provides social support and social networking and offers a place to meet others who hold similar values and a place to seek both spiritual and material help in times of need would be a part of ________.
structural functionalist theory