Exam 10: Learning What Is True: Religion, Science, and Education

Children of economically disadvantaged households fare just as well in school as children from affluent home environments.

Students learn to take turns, follow directions, and stand in line at school. These are examples of which of the following?

Define and distinguish between manifest and latent functions of education. Provide examples of each kind.

Describe some of the important issues raised by feminist perspectives on religion.

According to a feminist perspective, what is important to women concerning religion?

What is the term for the implicit transmission of cultural values such as conformity and obedience to authority through the school's rules, routines, and regulations?

Sociologists agree that scientific knowledge is a distinct form of knowledge that provides an objective truth.

Which of the following functions does religion serve, according to a functionalist perspective?

Which one of the following perspectives typically emphasizes the ways in which religious beliefs and rituals bind people together?

Students at Elmwood Elementary must go to the office to get a late slip if they arrive after the final bell. Which of the following manifest functions of education does this illustrate?

According to the text, what would it take to get reluctant youths to attend church more often?

What do credentialists such as Randall Collins argue about the influences of school?

Which of the following research questions would an interactionist pose?

Kids who wear name-brand clothing and have the latest technological gadgets can be said to have more of what, compared to kids who do not have these resources?

"Cultural capital" has limited impact on educational success.

Many youth say they would increase their involvement in a religious group if they found it to be worthwhile.

The fact that all Canadian students have equal access to primary and secondary schooling means they have equal opportunities to succeed in school.

According to the text, what is the term applied to splitting students into curricular groupings, with each group headed along a different path?

Karl Marx believed that the capitalist class uses religious ideology as a tool of domination to mislead the workers about their true interests. Which of the following concepts describes this phenomenon in Marxian terms?

Which of the following describes the hidden, unstated, and sometimes unintended consequences of activities within an organization or institution that all social institutions, including schools, have?