soc 1a quiz 5
The practice of dividing students into groups that receive different instruction on the basis of assumed similarities in their ability or attainment is called:
NOT credentialism
Transnational corporations:
NOT: have successfully used ideology to convince large percentages of voters that what benefits corporations is of benefit for all
Trends in the workplace in the U.S. in recent decades has included what, in addition to (or following) outsourcing of the majority of manufacturing jobs?
NOT: higher percentages of workers working as contingent workers, and as part-time workers
When a small group of giant corporations predominate in an industry, they constitute:
NOT: monopoly
Research has found that students placed in the lower level educational tracks received a _______ education as a result.
NOT: more equal
The following sets of students have been found to be those most likely to be chosen by elite colleges, when those colleges decide on which applicants to give preference to for admission, even if these applicants have lower SAT scores and grades:
NOT: students who qualify for affirmative action, especially for those who have been disadvantaged by reason of race and gender
As discussed in Chapter 14, pressure to work more involves
all of the above
As part of the hidden curriculum:
all of the above
Capitalism:
all of the above
Henry Ford instituted the $5 day, which was:
all of the above
Stereotype threat:
all of the above
Taylorism resulted in:
all of the above
Unions:
all of the above
Which of the following is a major focus of the sociological study of education?
all of the above
Why did formal systems of education develop in modern societies?
all of the above
According to Chapter 14, Marx's theory of alienation referred to the alienation workers feel because work is boring.
false
According to Chapter 14, the results of the focus of corporations on making profits has been only beneficial for everyone.
false
According to lecture, schools are careful not to discriminate by race and ethnicity when suspending and expelling students.
false
According to lecture, women are promoted by their employers on the basis of their potential, rather than their accomplishments.
false
By law, corporations have to put the public good before making profits.
false
Course materials show that the median income of workers in the U.S. has kept up with increases in corporate profits.
false
Educational institutions are careful to be non-biased, so students of color are no more likely to be suspended or expelled than are white students.
false
Governmental funding for higher education (colleges) has remained a high priority over the last 4 decades, and for that reason has not dropped significantly during that time.
false
John Maynard Keynes argued that if wages are kept high, it will lead to an economic downturn.
false
Lecture examines the benefits of tracking, because it has been shown to be effective in helping students move into higher educational tracks.
false
Men who enter into positions that are typically held by women, such as becoming nurses and paralegals, typically experience prejudice on the job which holds them back from promotions and pay raises.
false
On average students from the U.S. test higher than students from other developed countries.
false
Research has found that the socioeconomic class of parents does not have much effect on years of schooling achieved by students, their grades, and their high school completion rates, as differences in student achievement are mostly due to individual decisions to work hard.
false
Workers in the U.S. are strongly protected, with rights such as paid vacations and maternity leave.
false
Which of the following is part of the hidden curriculum in schools?
teaching students to respect authority
A discrepancy between numbers of women and men entering and completing college, with women doing better on both counts, has been related to young men from working and lower class backgrounds viewing going to college and working hard in school as not really masculine.
true
According to Pierre Bourdeau, cultural capital is developed and enhanced by schools among middle-class and upper class students in ways that are not as accessible to working class and poor students.
true
According to Pierre Bourdieu, schools for middle and upper class students enhance the cultural and lifestyle factors that are key aspects of identifying social class and providing class advantage to the next generation.
true
According to lecture, globalization is the spread of interconnections, as well as integration and exchange of communications, travel, businesses, products, culture, ideas, and people, etc.
true
According to lecture, students who attend poor quality K-12 schools experience educational disadvantages that can make it extremely difficult for them to attend and do well in college.
true
As discussed by Chapter 14, corporations are legal persons, legally separate from their owners.
true
As discussed by Chapter 14, feminists have viewed the "family wage" as a patriarchal bargain in which expectations regarding gender roles and gender bias (men as the breadwinner and women at home) were more firmly entrenched.
true
As discussed by Chapter 14, most women now work, because families need it, but for many it has also become a place where the pressing demands of home, husband, and children can be escaped for a time.
true
As discussed by Chapter 14, unlike other advanced countries, U.S. workers have no government-mandated paid maternity leave, and less vacation time than workers in most other countries.
true
Corporations commonly externalize their costs to others, so that the corporation can increase their profits while someone else (who does not get the profit) bears the actual costs.
true
Credentialism is a word used to identify the focus on making sure that people have formal qualifications and education for particular occupations, even if the education involved does not relate to the actual functions of the job.
true
Experiments have shown that randomly chosen children will do much better in school, when their teachers are told that they are extra capable, showing that expectations impact both teachers and students.
true
Globalization is related to wages, because it has resulted in transnational corporations being able to outsource higher paying jobs from the U.S. to a wide range of countries where costs are cheaper.
true
Jonathan Kozol found that inequities in funding was a major cause of massive inequities in school systems, by social class.
true
Large percentages of homeless children experience major developmental delays (such as with speech), in addition to problems with missing school, hunger and malnutrition, frequent changes in school, etc.that have a very negative impact on their educational progress
true
Many contingent workers are called "independent contractors" by their employers, and get no unemployment when laid off, because the employers do not have to pay into the unemployment system for "independent contractors"
true
Poverty and homelessness have long-term and negative educational impacts on children in terms of such issues as developmental delays and brain growth.
true
Students who lose time due to suspensions and/or expulsions are more likely to have to repeat classes or grades, and often to come to view school as aversive and something to avoid.
true
The hidden curriculum in schools can be argued from a Marxist perspective to operate to prepare future workers in a capitalist economy to willingly follow orders from supervisors.
true
There are low-wage corporations, such as Walmart and McDonald's, that have paid so little that their employees have had to rely upon public assistance such as food stamps to survive, boosting profits for those corporations at taxpayer expense.
true
Under the law, corporations are legal persons, but when they break the law they can't be jailed, so are penalized through fines that come to only a fraction of profits.
true
