CHaPTER 8 QUIZ*

structural functionalism

Manny believes that religion gives meaning to his life. He believes that religion helps him understand the most fundamental questions about life and existence. Manny understands religion through which sociological lens?

conflict theory

Monique believes that religious practices such as prohibiting women from becoming priests promote inequality. Monique understands religion through which sociological lens?

Why do politics, education, and religion all appear in the same chapter of your text?

Political, religious, and educational concerns often overlap in everyday life.

power elite

C. Wright Mills identifies the small and unified group of people who occupy the highest positions of the major economic, political, and military institutions and exercise tremendous influence in American social life as:

social institutions

Systems and structures that persist over time and help organize group life are called

They are all social institutions

What do schools, churches, and governments all have in common?

simulacrum

What does Jean Baudrillard call an image in the media that people can no longer distinguish from the reality that it is supposed to represent?

In Schooling in Capitalist America, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis argued that schools train a labor force in the skills and attitudes necessary for the health of a modern economy. What are these skills and attitudes?

taking orders and performing repetitive tasks

When students are tested and the test results are used to place them in a certain category of classes (remedial, advanced, college prep, etc.), this process is called

tracking