Deck 12: A: Education

Question 1

In Canada today,male undergraduates dominate in mathematics,engineering,and the humanities.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Women's participation in higher education has decreased over the past decade.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Teachers and administrators have worked hard in developing teaching methods that make self-fulfilling prophecy for the students a thing of the past.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

As explained in the text,both industrialization and urbanization created the need for an education system.

Question 5

It is sociologically accurate to say that schools act as the great equalizer for girls and boys,women and men in our society today.

Question 6

Conflict theorists agree with the notion of meritocracy.

Question 7

Symbolic interactionists are solely interested in the meanings attached to school practices as they relate to students.

Question 8

Due to media coverage on human rights issues and the promotion of literacy for women,the education of daughters has become a high priority for developing countries.

Question 9

Functionalist approaches to education are used on a routine basis to explain the nature and function of the student's role.

Question 10

The great majority of medical students come from extremely privileged family backgrounds.

Question 11

Over half of Canadians today have had more formal education than a high school diploma.

Question 12

Anti-racist and multicultural policies are similar in that they highlight the need for tolerance in school and social spaces.

Question 13

Postmodern theories have helped to create gender-neutral educational experiences.

Question 14

Contemporary studies suggest that gendered patterns of interaction in the school setting have been eroded significantly,due in large part to the ongoing influence of the feminist movement.

Question 15

Bowles and Gintis developed the correspondence principle and argued that education and social class mobility were positive correlates.