Deck 6: Roles of Educational Institutions and Religious Participation in Family Life

Question 1

From the 1920s until the 1950s, the focus of early childhood education was on the intellectual preparation of children for an industrialized society.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Thirty years ago, parents were more involved in their children's grade-school and high-school education than they are today.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The educational system pursues family goals of gender-role differentiation and of the social integration of children in society.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A longer school day has very little impact on reading and math scores.

Question 5

Children from two-parent families who attend a school where most families are headed by lone mothers do less well in test scores.

Question 6

Female teens who attend schools with a large percentage of disadvantaged students are more likely to become pregnant than if they attend a school with a different SES profile.

Question 7

Children are more successful at school when family life is similar to the middle-class style of school organization.

Question 8

Reserve Native parenting style is less supervisory than is the case in the rest of society because it is their custom to rely on assistance from their extended kin or community for child supervision.

Question 9

The majority of parents of homeschooled children in Quebec and the U.S. are from working class backgrounds.

Question 10

The commonly used indicator of religiosity is attendance at religious services.

Question 11

Persons who attend religious services on a weekly basis are more likely to have a very happy marital relationship than those who do not.

Question 12

Religious commitment lowers health risks such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and precocious sexual activity, and may serve to prevent depression and anxiety.

Question 13

Participating in a religious congregation is generally considered a form of social capital.

Question 14

Adults who declare a religious affiliation are more likely to see marriage as a lifetime commitment than adults who profess no religious affiliation.

Question 15

Organized religions are highly critical of gender stratification.

Question 16

Primary school became compulsory in North America and Western Europe between

A) 1750 and 1800.
B) 1810 and 1830.
C) 1840 and 1890.
D) 1900 and 1920.
E) 1930 and 1940.

Question 17

Poor-quality child care

A) is the exception and rarely occurs in Canada.
B) causes obesity in children.
C) is related to maternal employment.
D) has a negative impact on child cognition and language development.
E) results in rude behaviour and a lack of values.

Question 18

Parents are NOT forced to accept a quality of care corresponding to their own characteristics in

A) Nova Scotia
B) Quebec
C) Ontario
D) Alberta
E) Manitoba

Question 19

In what kind of situation is it more beneficial to place a child in daycare as opposed to raising the child at home?

A) When the child is from disadvantaged home.
B) When the child comes from an average home.
C) When the child is from a high socio-economic status family.
D) When the child has no siblings.
E) Day care is always superior to raising a child at home.

Question 20

What is one problem reported in several studies related to the effects of child care on children?

A) lower reading scores
B) lower math scores
C) shy/inhibited behaviours
D) externalizing problems.
E) decline in verbal abilities

Question 21

Children who attend a Head Start type of program

A) tend to come from more affluent families.
B) experience a lasting boost in IQ.
C) adapt better in grade one.
D) show few benefits.
E) tend to end up in 'special education' programs.

Question 22

Within normal limits, the more schooling children have during the week,

A) the larger their cognitive growth.
B) the greater their attention deficit.
C) the more stressed they are.
D) the less healthy they are.
E) the greater their social skills.

Question 23

Once school and family background and a child's prior academic achievement are taken into account, parental involvement effects are not significant in terms of

A) sociability with peers.
B) teacher-child relations.
C) behavioural problems.
D) cognitive development.
E) emotional development.

Question 24

Parents who have within their social network access to psychologists and other school related professionals are most likely

A) unemployed poor.
B) upper middle class.
C) homeless.
D) working poor.
E) poor migrant farm labourers.

Question 25

Which of the following concepts best describes parents who enrol their children in a wide variety of extracurricular activities for the purposes of ensuring that they gain a competitive advantage over other children?

A) social capital.
B) maladjustment.
C) cultural capital.
D) theory of resources.
E) concerted cultivation.

Question 26

Disadvantaged parents often

A) do not value education as much as affluent parents.
B) encourage their children to leave school early.
C) discourage their children from doing their homework.
D) lack the skills to help their children with their homework.
E) encourage their children to get a job which impacts on the time they devote to schoolwork.

Question 27

When a child's grades are low

A) he or she is less likely to socialize with peers.
B) the parents have more contacts with teachers.
C) the parents stay away from schools.
D) the school is responsible.
E) the child is less likely to drop out of school.

Question 28

Social class is not always a good predictor of school success

A) among affluent families.
B) when other cultural and language factors are involved.
C) when there is high parental participation in educational activities
D) in terms of cognitive development.
E) for female children.

Question 29

Children's summer activities

A) are not related to school achievement.
B) largely depend on their family's social class.
C) always provide a healthy break from school.
D) always provide them with educational experiences.
E) provides children with valuable experiential knowledge that is not related to school.

Question 30

Children who attend French schools in English speaking provinces

A) have higher test scores in all subjects.
B) have lower test scores in all subjects.
C) have lower test scores in reading achievement.
D) have higher test scores in reading achievement.
E) have test scores which do not differ in any way from those of other children.

Question 31

Immigrants parents often have

A) low educational aspirations for their children.
B) high educational expectations for their children.
C) few conflicts with their children over education.
D) many conflicts with their children over education.
E) no interest in the educational experiences of their children.

Question 32

In terms of Aboriginal families, high-schoolers who attended _____ schools reported that their teachers and parents held higher educational aspirations for them than did Natives who attended regular _____ schools.

A) public, tribal
B) home, tribal
C) private, public
D) private, tribal
E) tribal, public

Question 33

_________ contribute to the solidification of the upper classes and the reinforcement of social inequalities.

A) Private schools that focus on academics
B) public schools
C) Private non-Catholic religious schools
D) Alternative schools
E) Home schools

Question 34

The staff at private schools are hired on the basis of

A) educational qualifications.
B) conformity to the school's ideology.
C) social capital.
D) religious compatibility.
E) patronage.

Question 35

Private schools

A) have a higher chance of developing a functional community.
B) are all boarding schools.
C) attract parents who do not have time to help their children.
D) are rarely religiously oriented.
E) are not affordable unless both parents are working.

Question 36

Alternative schools were developed to

A) accommodate children whose behavioural problems keep them out of regular schools.
B) serve children whose parents are ideologically opposed to certain tenets of mass schooling.
C) serve children whose parents were 'hippies' in the 1970s.
D) accommodate children whose parents are unsatisfied with the religious content of regular schools.
E) serve children who are neglected in the regular school system.

Question 37

A good example of the familialization of children is found in

A) boarding schools.
B) going away to college.
C) day care centers.
D) home schooling.
E) parent-teacher interviews.

Question 38

Home schooling

A) has no impact on a child's IQ.
B) most effectively ties family to its educational functions.
C) is state sponsored.
D) tends to attract families that cannot afford to send their children to regular schools.
E) prevents children from forming peer relationships.

Question 39

What constitutes a valid objection to home schooling?

A) Fears that teachers will abuse their pupils.
B) Concerns that parents may be too poor.
C) Concerns that children will lack peer contact.
D) Fears that children will not benefit from a good nutrition.
E) Concerns that parents will not schedule sufficient time for schoolwork.

Question 40

One of the responses parents give to concerns about the ideological "brainwashing" of their children is

A) that the education system also "brainwashes" children.
B) that parents have a right to encourage the values they want in their children.
C) that children have other contacts which prevents any opportunity to "brainwash" them.
D) that parents are required to teach from national and provincial curricula.
E) that children are too independent to be "brainwashed."

Question 41

A proof that home-schooled children are not "brainwashed" may be found in the fact that

A) many of the parents are not religious.
B) they do at least as well on standard tests.
C) they have at least one other sibling at home.
D) their fathers are relatively well educated.
E) their mothers are relatively well educated.

Question 42

A home schooled Canadian child is most likely to be

A) 17.
B) 16.
C) 14.
D) 12.
E) 7.

Question 43

The most obvious and commonly used indicator of religiosity is

A) spirituality.
B) material assets.
C) subjective well-being.
D) time spent praying alone.
E) attendance at religious services.

Question 44

According to the 2011 National Household Survey, what percentage of the Canadian population was Muslim?

A) 10%
B) 8%
C) 5%
D) 3%
E) 1%

Question 45

Private religious practice among adolescents is related to

A) lowers health risks such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and precocious sexual activity.
B) lower drug use and less delinquent behaviour.
C) lower chances of anxiety and depression.
D) fewer behavioural problems in environments in which violence is often witnessed and victimization occurs.
E) prosocial behaviour.

Question 46

Generally, religiosity correlates with

A) higher parental involvement.
B) higher rates of divorce.
C) higher rates of delinquency.
D) higher rates of adolescent drug abuse.
E) higher rates of corporal punishment.

Question 47

People who are religious tend to be in better health. A concept that can partly explain this phenomenon is that of

A) social desirability.
B) religiosity as an agent of social control.
C) religious congregation.
D) religiosity as religious capital.
E) religiosity as social capital.

Question 48

Couples who attend religious services together have lower divorce rates because

A) they have fewer children than others.
B) they are less poor than others.
C) religious teachings encourage people to get along.
D) they would lose face in their religious community if they divorced.
E) they don't believe in individual happiness.

Question 49

Research evidence shows that religious fathers are

A) generally less involved in parenting than non-religious fathers.
B) more involved with their children only when they are divorced.
C) more involved with their children only when they are married.
D) more involved than non-religious fathers whether they are married or divorced.
E) less likely to pass their religious values on to their children.

Question 50

Most religious communities tend to __________ families which are non-traditional.

A) welcome
B) seek out
C) accept
D) try to change
E) exclude

Question 51

What are indicators of quality childcare?

Question 52

What are the effects on children of being in a daycare centre?

Question 53

Explain how social class affects parental involvement in schooling.

Question 54

Describe the factors that contribute to family and school compatibility for Aboriginal children.

Question 55

Discuss home schooling in relation to the concept of the familialization of children.

Question 56

Use two sociological concepts that could help explain the result that religious parents may be more involved with their children than other parents. (Suggestions: functional community, social capital, social control, support group.)