Deck 6: Education

Question 1

C. Wright Mills argued that education functions to ______.

A) maintain the social hierarchy by creating workers
B) help students produce advanced technology
C) empower students to change their communities
D) teach students to avoid criminal activity

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Roughly what percentage of preschool-aged children in the United States go to an organized day care or preschool facility?

A) 10
B) 20
C) 30
D) 40

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The first public schools in the United States were established after the ______.

A) American Revolution
B) Emancipation Proclamation
C) War of 1812
D) Civil War

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What was the first university built and chartered in the United States?

A) University of Pennsylvania
B) Boston College
C) Harvard University
D) Brown College

Question 5

In the 1870s boarding schools were set up in the United States to "civilize" this group of students.

A) African Americans
B) Native Americans
C) Mexican Americans
D) both "African Americans" and "Native Americans"

Question 6

This was one way that Native American children were "civilized" in boarding schools.

A) taught to speak English
B) taught Native American history
C) taught English social norms
D) both "taught to speak English" and "taught English social norms"

Question 7

What year were slaves emancipated from slavery in the United States?

A) 1842
B) 1851
C) 1863
D) 1875

Question 8

The historical period following the Civil War was known as ______.

A) time of freedom
B) period of renewal
C) reconstruction
D) destruction

Question 9

Which of the following was not a challenge during reconstruction?

A) protect freed slaves from harm
B) rebuild the southern economy
C) integrate freed slaves into the U.S. economy
D) all of these were challenges during reconstruction

Question 10

Who gave the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition speech in 1895?

A) Booker T. Washington
B) W.E.B. DuBois
C) Karl Marx
D) Harry Truman

Question 11

What did the Plessy v. Ferguson case decide?

A) segregation in public facilities was constitutional
B) "separate but equal" was unconstitutional
C) legality of equal pay for equal work
D) gender wage equity

Question 12

Which Civil Rights activist founded the Niagara Movement?

A) W.E.B. DuBois
B) Booker T. Washington
C) Mohammed Ali
D) Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 13

What did the case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decide?

A) "separate but equal" was unconstitutional
B) segregation in public facilities was constitutional
C) gender wage equity
D) none of these

Question 14

Which group was the focus of the Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County case in 1946?

A) African Americans
B) Puerto Rican Americans
C) Mexican Americans
D) Asian Americans

Question 15

This is the process by which members of society are taught society's dominant roles, norms, and values.

A) socialization
B) secondary education
C) political affiliation
D) none of these

Question 16

Which sociologist explained that education instilled a sense of morality and social cohesion in individuals?

A) W.E.B. DuBois
B) Émile Durkheim
C) Talcott Parsons
D) Karl Marx

Question 17

When a student is taught to feel connected to the surrounding community, the student is being taught Durkheim's concept of ______.

A) social cohesion
B) alienation
C) class conflict
D) deviance

Question 18

In these schools during the 17th to 19th centuries, female teachers taught young girls how to sew, knit, and embroider.

A) home-economics
B) dame schools
C) grammar schools
D) domestic

Question 19

This includes the provision of skills that are exchangeable within a social structure or market for other forms of capital.

A) cultural capital
B) human capital
C) socialization
D) re-socialization

Question 20

Learning how to follow directions and stand in line are examples of ______.

A) human capital
B) socialization
C) counter-culture
D) both "human capital" and "socialization"

Question 21

The practice of teaching only English norms in boarding schools is an example of ______.

A) re-socialization
B) cultural equity
C) separate but equal ideologies
D) none of these

Question 22

What state was home to the first four-year Black Studies program?

A) Washington
B) Oregon
C) Pennsylvania
D) California

Question 23

This refers to the meanings, codes, understandings, and practices that people accumulate and use to exchange for other goods in societal or economic markets.

A) human capital
B) cultural capital
C) socialization
D) hidden curriculum

Question 24

When the education system is dominated by white middle-class ideology it disenfranchises minority students from exercising their ______.

A) cultural capital
B) socialization
C) hidden curriculum
D) educational autonomy

Question 25

Which of the following is a form of cultural capital?

A) institutionalized recognition
B) physical objects like books or clothing
C) personal characteristics such as a worldview
D) all of these

Question 26

Which of the following is not an example of cultural capital?

A) wardrobe
B) your eye color
C) number of books in your home
D) number of languages you speak

Question 27

Which of the following was an effort at presidential reform for education?

A) No Child Left Behind
B) A Nation at Risk
C) Race to the Top
D) all of these

Question 28

Which president tried to reform education with the program No Child Left Behind?

A) Barack Obama
B) Bill Clinton
C) George W. Bush
D) Ronald Reagan

Question 29

Which president tried to reform education with the program Race to the Top?

A) Barack Obama
B) Bill Clinton
C) George W. Bush
D) Ronald Reagan

Question 30

Which president tried to reform education with the program A Nation at Risk?

A) Barack Obama
B) Bill Clinton
C) George W. Bush
D) Ronald Reagan

Question 31

Which group is likely to earn more on average annual than a white woman with an associate's degree?

A) white men with a high school education
B) black women with an associate's degree
C) white men with an associate's degree
D) both "white men with a high school education" and "white men with an associate's degree"

Question 32

Who is the current secretary of education in the United States (2017)?

A) Betsy DeVos
B) Harriet Jones
C) Nancy Pelosi
D) Rick Adams

Question 33

Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old girl who was shot in the head for speaking out for education, is from this country.

A) Pakistan
B) Uzbekistan
C) Afghanistan
D) Israel

Question 34

Which of the following is true of gender differences in the U.S. educational system?

A) Girls do less well on standardized tests than boys.
B) Girls get better grades than boys.
C) Girls have more interest in schooling than boys.
D) all of these are true

Question 35

Which of the following is not true of gender differences in the U.S. education system?

A) Girls do better on standardized tests than boys.
B) Girls get better grades than boys.
C) Girls have more interest in schooling than boys.
D) none of these

Question 36

Research has found this to be true about the experience of black girls' educational lives.

A) Increased levels of law enforcement make them feel less safe in school.
B) Failure of schools to intervene in sexual harassment contributes to their insecurity at school.
C) They experience a high level of interpersonal violence.
D) all of these

Question 37

The National School Climate Survey shows that LGBTQ students experience ______.

A) hostile school climates
B) lower educational aspirations
C) high absenteeism
D) all of these

Question 38

Which of the following is not experienced by LGBTQ students?

A) higher levels of educational aspirations
B) high absenteeism
C) hostile school climates
D) poor psychological well-being

Question 39

Which of the following was offered as a solution to the problems that LGBTQ students face in school?

A) increased opportunities for gay-straight alliances
B) for curriculum to includes the lives and histories of LGBTQ individuals
C) comprehensive anti-bullying policies
D) all of these

Question 40

In the student-teacher model, ______.

A) the teacher holds all of the social power in the exchange
B) students are seen as having experience and insight to offer to their teachers
C) students teach themselves
D) none of these

Question 41

Which of the following was a key factor in shaping the contemporary educational system in the United States?

A) treatment of Native Americans
B) development of the university system
C) establishment of separate schools for black and white children
D) all of these

Question 42

Which of the following theories focuses on skill development?

A) social-functional
B) human capital
C) symbolic interaction
D) conflict

Question 43

Based on the reading in Chapter 6, education can be seen as a site of ______.

A) social class construction
B) creating workers
C) conversion to white, American culture
D) all of these

Question 44

Where was Paulo Freire, the educator who called for the pedagogy of liberation, from?

A) Canada
B) Brazil
C) Puerto Rico
D) Mexico

Question 45

Which sociologist would argue that education functions to maintain the social hierarchy by creating workers, who then sustain the wealth of the elite?

A) C. Wright Mills
B) Émile Durkheim
C) Max Weber
D) Talcott Parsons

Question 46

Which of the following was a goal of the "separate but equal" legislation following the Civil War?

A) to keep black domesticated
B) to keep blacks subservient
C) to limit their skill sets
D) all of these

Question 47

What was the focus of the Niagara Movement?

A) school de-segregation
B) free education for all
C) workplace safety
D) living wage

Question 48

Which of the following is a way that schools subconsciously infuse children with the norms, rules, and values of their society?

A) relationship between the teacher and the student
B) structure of the rules reinforced in the school
C) structure of the classroom
D) all of these

Question 49

Roughly how many contemporary colleges and universities currently offer African Studies in the United States?

A) more than 200
B) 75
C) 125
D) fewer than 50

Question 50

Which of the following is a way that schools reproduce social classes from generation to generation?

A) dress codes
B) school uniforms
C) lockers
D) both "dress codes" and "school uniforms"

Question 51

Which of the following is a common school rule that prepares a student for future employment?

A) keep your desk clean
B) arrive on time
C) line up
D) all of these

Question 52

What is the occupational function of teaching a student to "eat when it is time for lunch"?

A) evaluation
B) importance of schedules
C) hierarchy
D) none of these

Question 53

What is the occupational function of teaching a student to "sit in your assigned seat"?

A) evaluation
B) importance of schedules
C) hierarchy
D) importance of maintaining order

Question 54

The re-socialization of Native American children in boarding schools has been described as ______.

A) a soul wound
B) cultural amputation
C) a prisoner of war experience
D) a total institution

Question 55

Educational equity has not led to more income equality.

Question 56

As a society we have decreased our human capital without increasing our socioeconomic equality.

Question 57

Education is one of the most fundamental axes of inequality in all societies.

Question 58

The United States is the only nation that funds its public schools primarily on the basis of local and state, not federal, tax revenues.

Question 59

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines education as a human right.

Question 60

A Georgetown University study shows that people with college degrees from elite institutions are out-earning their peers from other educational institutions in 10 years.

Question 61

By 1905 most children received some form of compulsory education.

Question 62

The authors explain that cultural capital is like a roadmap that helps us navigate social life because we have learned the "rules of the game."

Question 63

W.E.B. DuBois argued that all institutions in capitalist societies are "epiphenomenal to social class."

Question 64

The age at which children begin and end their education varies by state.

Question 65

Using information from the reading, describe the Atlanta Compromise.

Question 66

Describe the focus of the Harlem Renaissance.

Question 67

Discuss three of the four challenges that the United States faced during the period of reconstruction following the Civil War.

Question 68

Describe what the policy of "school choice" means and how this type of federal policy might influence minority students.

Question 69

Discuss the school-to-prison pipeline.