Deck 5: Education

Question 1

What does Barrie Thorne's work on schoolchildren demonstrate about gender?

A) That gender is an individual, psychological production that school affects only by perpetuating
B) That gender is imposed by the adults in a child's life, including teachers and administrators
C) That gender and its absence are an active accomplishment of social relations among children and between children and teachers
D) That the schoolwork children do contains hidden messages about gender expectations

Answer 1

C

Question 2

How do self-esteem rates differ by race and gender in the United States?

A) They increase in adolescence for girls and boys of both races.
B) They decline for all adolescents, but they decline more for boys and most for African American boys.
C) They decline for girls but not boys, and they decline most for African American girls.
D) They decline for all adolescents, but they decline more for girls and most for Latina girls.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

How do perceptions of African American boys' behavior in school differ from perceptions of white schoolboys' behavior?

A) White boys are ignored, while black boys are scrutinized; this extra negative attention reinforces the perception of black boys as time-consuming for teachers.
B) White boys' disobedience is seen as naughty but endearing, while black boys' misbehavior is seen as violent and problematic.
C) Black boys' behavior is seen as negative and troublemaking, while white boys are considered to be obedient, even when they are not following the rules.
D) Perceptions of white boys' behavior and black boys' behavior actually differ very little, according to studies.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

How are reading materials in schools gendered?

A) Girls are asked to perform reading tasks far more frequently than boys.
B) Boys are asked to perform reading tasks for more frequently than girls.
C) Female characters are more visible and active and play more important parts.
D) Male characters are more visible and active and play more important parts.

Question 5

What is a significant determinant of the racial gap in high school dropout rates?

A) Unequal amounts of money spent across school systems from one neighborhood to the next
B) Discrimination in after-school activities
C) Single-parent households in African American communities
D) All of the above

Question 6

What did Title IX do?

A) It required every high school to have a co-ed sports team.
B) It declared same-sex schools unconstitutional except in circumstances in which the school could prove regional necessity.
C) It made it illegal for schools that received federal assistance to discriminate against girls and women.
D) It offered financial incentives for schools to create special after-school and sports programs for girls.

Question 7

How has the gender composition of college students changed in the last century?

A) Men are increasingly gaining admission to higher education and completing degrees while women's participation seems to be stagnant.
B) Women are increasingly gaining admission to higher education and completing degrees while men's participation seems to be stagnant.
C) Women are increasingly gaining admission to higher education but very often do not complete their degrees.
D) Men are increasingly gaining admission to higher education but very often do not complete their degrees.

Question 8

How do class and race ethnicity intersect with the recent trend of males falling behind in school?

A) They do not intersect: men are dropping out of education at all socioeconomic levels and in all race ethnicities.
B) Upper-middle-class white males make up the majority of college dropouts, while African American males are more likely to drop out at the high school level.
C) Race ethnicity plays far less of a role than class: working-class males make up the majority of high school and college dropouts.
D) It is lower-income men, especially African American and Hispanic men, who are rapidly dropping out of education.

Question 9

How is water connected to global literacy rates?

A) In the global South, girls are often responsible for carrying water to their homes, a job that can prevent them from having the time to attend school.
B) In the global South, water distribution in families is unequal, and girls often do not have enough water to have adequate energy or hygiene for school attendance.
C) Many children in the global South are prevented from attending school by annual flooding of rivers.
D) Research has shown a strong correlation between secondary education and consumption of sanitary water.

Question 10

How is American school training connected to capitalism, according to Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis's "correspondence principle"?

A) Schools create a microcosm of the free market in their control of supply and demand.
B) The intellectual demands schools make of students, particularly training in mathematics and the sciences, correspond to the requirements of white-collar work.
C) Schools prepare the docile, obedient, and motivated workforce that capitalism needs.
D) All of the above

Question 11

Men outnumber women in all of the following administrative positions, except for one. Which one is it?

A) High school principals
B) Junior high/middle school principals
C) Elementary school principals
D) College deans

Question 12

The _________ is an explanation for lower levels of achievement among lower-income students which has been rejected by scholars due to lack of empirical support and racist assumptions concerning the organization of poor, mainly non-white families.

A) culture of poverty thesis
B) hidden curriculum
C) structural perspective on educational inequality
D) unwritten rules thesis

Question 13

Which of the following terms does Barrie Thorne use to refer to elementary school students' attempts to create separate gender realms for girls and boys through contests, chasing, and "cooties"?

A) Neutralization
B) Pollution ritual
C) Borderwork
D) Chilly climate

Question 14

Observers have noted that boys will often transform toys and other objects into weapons to play out warrior narratives. This process of transforming available items into something else is known as _______.

A) materialism
B) bricolage
C) symbolic annihilation
D) neutralization

Question 15

Research finds that women and girls are underrepresented as characters, authors, and subjects of children's literature and textbooks, contributing to a textual world where women and girls are erased or not important. This process is known as __________.

A) borderwork
B) bricolage
C) neutralization
D) symbolic annihilation

Question 16

Which of the following is true regarding the representation of women and girls in children's literature since the 1970s:

A) Children's literature featured a higher proportion of women and girls as characters in the 1970s than it does today.
B) Women and girls are characters in children's books today in roughly the same proportions as they were in the 1970s.
C) Children's literature features a greater proportion of women and girls as characters today than it did in the 1970s, but they are still underrepresented.
D) Unlike in the 1970s, children's literature today features an almost equal proportion of male and female characters.

Question 17

Which country has the highest proportion of women attending college?

A) Algeria
B) China
C) Cuba
D) United States

Question 18

What was the first U.S. institution to integrate women and men in higher education by admitting women beginning in 1833?

A) Wellesley College
B) Oberlin College
C) Brown University
D) Antioch College

Question 19

Which of the following is true regarding women in STEM fields throughout the world?

A) Mothers in STEM fields in developed countries on average, valued mathematical competence more in their sons than their daughters.
B) More mothers work in STEM fields in more developed countries.
C) Economically developed and more gender equal countries have a larger gap in in mathematics anxiety between boys and girls compared to the gap in less developed countries.
D) All of the above.

Question 20

Which of the following terms refers to lessons students learn through patterns of interaction which communicate values, norms, and expectations, but are not a part of the explicit lesson plan? An example is girls learning to raise their hands and wait to be called on because they are admonished for yelling out answers while boys are not.

A) The hidden curriculum
B) The correspondence principle
C) The structural perspective on educational inequality
D) Bricolage