Sociology Chapter 9 Quiz

A formal process of learning in which some people consciously teach while others adopt the social role of learner.

Manifest functions are the transmission of knowledge and bestowal of status; latent functions include transmitting culture, promoting social and political integration, maintaining social control, and serving as an agent of change.

Refers to standards of behavior that are deemed proper by society and are taught subtly in schools.

<p>It discusses education having both manifest and latent functions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It was a revolutionary act that desegregated schools.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The educational system helps certain poor children to move into middle-class professional positions while denying most disadvantaged children the same opportunities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A term used to describe an increase in the lowest level of education needed to enter a field.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to the practice of placing students in specific curriculum groups based on their test scores and other criteria.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The impact that a teacher's expectations about a student's performance may have on the student's actual achievements.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A structure characterized by division of labor, hierarchy of authority, written rules and regulations, impersonality, and employment based on technical qualifications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It refers to the specialization of tasks within an organization or society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Each employee of a school system is responsible to a higher authority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Teachers and administrators must conform to numerous rules and regulations in the performance of their duties.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A characteristic of bureaucracy where teachers may not provide personal attention to individual students due to large class sizes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Employment is based on hiring teachers and college professors based on their professional competence and expertise.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Involved in the struggle for authority and power.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The actual or threatened use of coercion to impose one's will on others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to the exercise of power through a process of persuasion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to power that has been institutionalized and is recognized by the people over whom it is exercised.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The corporate rich, leaders of the executive branch of government, and heads of the military (warlords).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The U.S.'s power is more widely shared than elite models indicate, and this model more accurately describes the nation's political system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An economic system in which the means of production are held largely in private hands, and the main incentive for economic activity is the accumulation of profits.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A term meaning 'let them do', which refers to minimal government intervention in business competition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Means of production and distribution in a society are collectively rather than privately owned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An economic system in which all property is communally owned and no social distinctions are made based on people's ability to produce.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Domhoff's Model identifies the social upper class, corporate community, and policy formation organization as key groups of power.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to reductions taken in a company's workforce as part of deindustrialization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The systematic, widespread withdrawal of investment in basic aspects of productivity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A phase characterized by reliance on services, especially information processing and control, and expanded middle class.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The two major classes are the Power Elite (corporate rich, government leaders, and military heads) and the Unorganized Exploited Masses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Traditional authority, Rational-Legal authority, and Charismatic authority.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Refers to power made legitimate by a leader's exceptional personal or emotional appeal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Power made legitimate by law or by the written rules and regulations of a political system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Legitimate power conferred by custom and accepted practice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Lending small sums of money to the poor so they can work their way out of poverty.</p> Signup and view all the answers