Education and Inequality: Advantages and Disadvantages
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What is the main function of education according to the text?

  • Determining national identity
  • Passing on knowledge, beliefs, and skills to the next generation (correct)
  • Preventing inequality in society
  • Teaching sex education and birth control advice

    • What is the latent function of education according to the text?

  • Child care (correct)
  • Cultural transmission of values
  • Teaching knowledge and skills
  • Social integration

    • What is the process by which schools pass a society’s core values from one generation to the next?

  • Cultural transmission of values (correct)
  • Teaching sex education and birth control advice
  • Social integration
  • Determining national identity

    • What do grade school teachers in every country extol according to the text?

    <p>The virtues of the society's founders and their struggle for freedom from oppression</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which perspective emphasizes the role of education in reproducing existing belief systems and practices?

    <p>Functionalist Perspective</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why are diplomas needed on applying for a job according to the text?

    <p>To fulfill the group’s significant positions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to refer to the attitudes and unwritten rules of behavior that schools teach, in addition to the formal curriculum?

    <p>The Hidden Curriculum</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Talcott Parsons and Kingsley Davis, what sorts people on the basis of merit?

    <p>Gatekeeping</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who examined how the educational system reproduces social inequality?

    <p>Randall Collins</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Illich claim is central to economic stratification?

    <p>Education</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Pierre Bourdieu, what privileges accompany a social location and help someone in life?

    <p>Cultural Capital</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for a society in which employers use diplomas and degrees to determine who is eligible for a job?

    <p>The Credential Society</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does gatekeeping do according to the text?

    <p>Sorts people on the basis of merit</p> Signup and view all the answers

    "Privileges accompanying a social location that help someone in life" is referred to as:

    <p>&quot;Cultural Capital&quot;</p> Signup and view all the answers

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