A) the knowledge and skills individuals can build to make themselves competitive. B) the collection of relationships that can facilitate the actions and behaviors of others. C) social class and cultural differences in types of knowledge that people can use to their advantage. D) the center of socialization resources that a group of people has at its disposal. A) the knowledge and skills individuals can build to make themselves competitive. B) the collection of relationships that can facilitate the actions and behaviors of others. C) social class and cultural differences in types of knowledge that people can use to their advantage. D) the center of socialization resources that a group of people has at its disposal.

Exam 13: Education

William,a 17-year-old high school student,chooses products in the grocery store by looking at the pictures on the labels of the goods on the shelves because he cannot read many of the words.William would be considered:

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Discuss how tracking creates differences among students within the same schools that may be significantly greater than differences between schools.

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Tracking accounts for a portion of the large differences observed between students in the same schools by sorting them by aspiration (college,general,or vocational tracks)or level of ability (high/honors or low).Parents who went to college know the importance of the college track and advocate for their children to be placed in that track,where the quality of instruction is more rigorous than the general track.

Explain how sex and social class intersect and may account for educational differences between males and females.

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Despite media attention to a crisis in male-female school performance,much evidence shows that many sex differences are related to social class.For instance,among children born prior to the mid-1960s,males from all backgrounds outperformed females in school,but only girls with college-educated parents obtained educational levels matching boys.Among children born after the mid-1960s,however,the pattern reversed; girls from all backgrounds began doing well in school,where boys from families with fewer resources began showing declines.Among children in middle- and upper-class families,there is little evidence of a boy-girl educational crisis.

Which of the following is an argument in favor of school vouchers?

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Which of the following is NOT a sociological criticism of the idea that IQ affects educational outcomes?

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According to Bourdieu,the three types of cultural capital are:

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The research on teacher quality demonstrates that:

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In part because of their educational success,which group has been called the "model minority" in America?

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Knowledge and skills that make someone more productive and bankable are known as:

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Social capital is:

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The embodied cultural capital that parents have may work with institutional cultural capital.Which of the following illustrates this?

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What was the nature of the scandal surrounding the SAT Reasoning Test in the spring of 2006?

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Which of the following is NOT an argument against tracking in schools?

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Which of the following is NOT a criticism that a Marxist theorist of education would make regarding how schools have socialized children to dominant cultural values?

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According to your text,approximately what percentage of the nation's population age 16 years and older is innumerate?

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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Which of the following best illustrates the concept of cultural capital?

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Explain how race and social class intersect to affect education outcomes.

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The SAT was developed in order to provide children from public schools with a chance to demonstrate their fitness for college and to show they are as able as students from private high schools.It is therefore ironic that:

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Which of the following is most likely to be a conflict perspective argument about why education levels have continually risen in the United States over the course of the last century?

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William,a 17-year-old high school student,chooses products in the grocery store by looking at the pictures on the labels of the goods on the shelves because he cannot read many of the words.William would be considered:

Discuss how tracking creates differences among students within the same schools that may be significantly greater than differences between schools.

Explain how sex and social class intersect and may account for educational differences between males and females.

Which of the following is an argument in favor of school vouchers?

Which of the following is NOT a sociological criticism of the idea that IQ affects educational outcomes?

According to Bourdieu,the three types of cultural capital are:

The research on teacher quality demonstrates that:

In part because of their educational success,which group has been called the "model minority" in America?

Knowledge and skills that make someone more productive and bankable are known as:

Social capital is:

The embodied cultural capital that parents have may work with institutional cultural capital.Which of the following illustrates this?

What was the nature of the scandal surrounding the SAT Reasoning Test in the spring of 2006?

Which of the following is NOT an argument against tracking in schools?

Which of the following is NOT a criticism that a Marxist theorist of education would make regarding how schools have socialized children to dominant cultural values?

According to your text,approximately what percentage of the nation's population age 16 years and older is innumerate?

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of cultural capital?

Explain how race and social class intersect to affect education outcomes.

The SAT was developed in order to provide children from public schools with a chance to demonstrate their fitness for college and to show they are as able as students from private high schools.It is therefore ironic that:

Which of the following is most likely to be a conflict perspective argument about why education levels have continually risen in the United States over the course of the last century?

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